The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBecause no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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