Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo one individual can tell the truth.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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 best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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