The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
WILLIAM FAULKNERI say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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