I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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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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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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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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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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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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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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