No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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She was the captain of her soul
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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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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