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 FAULKNERThe most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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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 could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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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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History is not was, it is.
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