I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI’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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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History is not was, it is.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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