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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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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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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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