And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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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 give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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.
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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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History is not was, it is.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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