Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t 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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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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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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