I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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