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 FAULKNERHollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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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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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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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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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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