You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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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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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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