And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNever be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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He 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.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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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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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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