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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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She was the captain of her soul
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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 give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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