As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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She was the captain of her soul
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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