Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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