The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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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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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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