The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
WILLIAM FAULKNERUnless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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.
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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History is not was, it is.
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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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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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