It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
William FaulknerTags: man
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.
William FaulknerThough children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.
William FaulknerWhen it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get.
William FaulknerTags: advice
Making or getting money is a kind of game where there are not any rules at all.
William FaulknerAnd even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
William FaulknerI know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
William FaulknerAnd sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.
William FaulknerTags: patience
I could hear my watch whenever the car stopped, but not often they were already eating Who would play a Eating the business of eating inside of you space too space and time confused Stomach saying noon brain saying eat o clock All right I wonder what time it is what of it.
William FaulknerI believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of man's puny, inexhaustible, voice still talking! ...not simply because man alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because man has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion, sacrifice and endurance.
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