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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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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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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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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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