And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTo live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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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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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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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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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