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One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
— William Faulkner
Truth is one. It doesn't change. It covers all things which touch the heart - honor and pride and pity and justice and courage and love.
— William Faulkner
ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.
— William Faulkner
you wanted to sublimate a piece of natural human folly into a horror and then exorcise it with truth and i it was to isolate her out of the loud world so that it would have to flee us of necessity and then the sound of it would be as though it had never been
— William Faulkner
Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
— William Faulkner
So this is love. I see. I was wrong about it too', thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
— William Faulkner
Because always,' he thinks, 'when anything gets to be a habit, it also manages to get a right good distance away from truth and fact.
— William Faulkner
Only a fool tries to outsmart smart people, and anyone that tries to fool fools is himself already one.
— William Faulkner
She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
— William Faulkner
The somebody you was young with and you growed old in her and she growed old in you, seeing the old coming in and it was one somebody you could hear say it don't matter and know it was the truth outen the hard world ad all a man's grief and trials.
— William Faulkner
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
— William Faulkner
The Lord can see into the heart. If it is His will that some folks has different ideas about honesty from other folks, it is not my place to question His decree.
— William Faulkner