And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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