The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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