A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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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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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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 work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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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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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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