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 FAULKNERWe have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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