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
WILLIAM FAULKNERThey say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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History is not was, it is.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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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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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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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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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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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 most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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