If there is a God what the hell is He for?
WILLIAM FAULKNERAnd even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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She was the captain of her soul
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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