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 FAULKNERHe must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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