Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAnd even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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She was the captain of her soul
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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