I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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