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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThey 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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 next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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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 takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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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 give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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She was the captain of her soul
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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