The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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History is not was, it is.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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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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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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