The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWhatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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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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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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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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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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 salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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History is not was, it is.
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She was the captain of her soul
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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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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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