Wonder. Go on and wonder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFacts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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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 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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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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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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History is not was, it is.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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 end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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