It’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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFacts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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.
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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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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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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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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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