War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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There 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.
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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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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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