Someone 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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTalk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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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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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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She was the captain of her soul
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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