How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHe must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Civilization begins with distillation
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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