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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAll of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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