Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo one individual can tell the truth.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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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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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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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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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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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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Because 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.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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