I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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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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