Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPouring out liquor is like burning books.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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She was the captain of her soul
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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History is not was, it is.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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