And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSomeone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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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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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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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 quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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