I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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She was the captain of her soul
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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