Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
William Faulkner
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
Author
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
New Albany
Mississippi
William Cuthbert Faulkner
William Falkner
William Cuthbert Falkner
Others
Drinking
Booze
Happens
Wine
Whiskey
Better
Fool
Liquor
Thing
Drink
Alcohol
Men
Humor
Fifty
Happen
Humorous
Funny
Damn
Doesn
Shouldn
More quotes by William Faulkner
People everywhere are about the same, but ... it did seem that in a small town, where evil is harder to accomplish, where opportunities for privacy are scarcer, that people can invent more of it in other people's names. Because that was all it required: that idea, that single idle word blown from mind to mind.
William Faulkner
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
William Faulkner
There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.
William Faulkner
The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.
William Faulkner
The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.
William Faulkner
That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.
William Faulkner
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.
William Faulkner
Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.
William Faulkner
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
William Faulkner
Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.
William Faulkner
When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.
William Faulkner
It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened to you and all it was was just pain, all it did was hurt and so it was all over, all finished, all right.
William Faulkner
This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
William Faulkner
Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.
William Faulkner
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
William Faulkner
Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
William Faulkner
No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
William Faulkner
No man can write who is not first a humanitarian
William Faulkner
I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.
William Faulkner