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William Faulkner, Light in August Quotes: It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
         

It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.


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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.



Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.



I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.



And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.



Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.



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.

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.



Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness.

Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness.



Memory believes before knowing remembers.[Light in August]

Memory believes before knowing remembers.[Light in August]



It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.

It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.



When 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.

When 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.





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