Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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Truth; 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.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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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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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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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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