There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPeople need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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