People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPouring out liquor is like burning books.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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She was the captain of her soul
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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