People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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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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 problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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