I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERCivilization begins with distillation
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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History is not was, it is.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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