If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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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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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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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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