The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
WILLIAM FAULKNER
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
WILLIAM FAULKNER