And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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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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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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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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