I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNever be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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 next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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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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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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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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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…
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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