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"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth" William Faulkner
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William Faulkner was an American novelist, therefore, known for his words.
| | A gentleman can live through anything. |
| | A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream. |
| | A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. |
| | A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. |
| | All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. |
| | Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. |
| | The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. |
| | Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other. |
| | I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it. |
| | If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevsky, all of us. |
| | Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it. |
| | My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky. |
| | The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it. |
| | The salvation of the world is in man's suffering. |
| | This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them. |
| | To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. |
| | Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find. |
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