And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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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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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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.
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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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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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