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 FAULKNERI give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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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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She was the captain of her soul
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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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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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