History is not was, it is.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFacts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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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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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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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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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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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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