Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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