It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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