No one individual can tell the truth.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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 man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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