No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLike a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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