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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWomen know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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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 quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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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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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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