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.
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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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If 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…
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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