Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThere 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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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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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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 end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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