They 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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTruth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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