A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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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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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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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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