I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAn artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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