Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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He 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.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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