I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThere are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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She was the captain of her soul
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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