I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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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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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
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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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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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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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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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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