I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFor every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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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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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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