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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTime 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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