A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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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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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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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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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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