No one individual can tell the truth.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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