Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth... — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Victory without God is mockery and delusion, but...defeat with God is not defeat.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Because always,’ he thinks, ‘when anything gets to be a habit, it also manages to get a right good distance away from… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“In my time I have seen truth that was anything under the sun but just, and I have seen justice using tools… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself;… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“[A writer] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“So never be afraid, never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion; against injustice, lying and greed.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The river itself is not a hundred yards across, and pa and Vernon and Vardaman and Dewey Dell are the only things in sight… — William Faulkner Copy Share
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it. — William Faulkner Copy Share
“Luster returned, wearing a stiff new straw hat with a colored band and carrying a cloth cap. The hat seemed to isolate Luster's skull,… — William Faulkner Copy Share
It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged… — William Faulkner Copy Share
“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on… — William Faulkner Copy Share
I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil, — William Faulkner Copy Share
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough. — William Faulkner Copy Share
“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice,… — William Faulkner Copy Share
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the… — William Faulkner Copy Share
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. — William Faulkner Copy Share
“What modren ideas?” pap said. “I didn’t know there was but one idea about work—until it is done, it ain’t done, and when it… — William Faulkner Copy Share
“It was only as he put his hand on the door that he became aware of complete silence beyond it, a silence which he… — William Faulkner Copy Share
“She has no mother because fatherblood hates with love and pride, but motherblood with hate loves and cohabits.” — William Faulkner Copy Share
“Byron listened quietly, thinking to himself how people everywhere are about the same, but that it did seem that in a small town, where… — William Faulkner Copy Share
“It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I… — William Faulkner Copy Share
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