Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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History is not was, it is.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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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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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 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.
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