And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTry to be better than yourself.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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No 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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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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History is not was, it is.
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