The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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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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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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She was the captain of her soul
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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