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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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.
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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