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“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have come equipped with that famously ticking clock. Unlike so many of my friends, I did not ache with longing whenever I saw an infant. (Though I did ache with longing, it is true, whenever I saw a good used-book shop)”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“If a story is in you, it has to come out.”
― William Faulkner

“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.”
― William Faulkner

“Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest”
― William Faulkner

“All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. If I could write all my work again, I'm convinced I could do it better. This is the healthiest condition for an artist. That's why he keeps working, trying again: he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won't.”
― William Faulkner

“If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.”
― William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.”
― William Faulkner

“The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews. ”
― William Faulkner

“the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat”
― William Faulkner

“Memory believes before knowing remembers.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.”
― William Faulkner, Light in August

“This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.”
― William Faulkner

“Love doesn't die; the men and women do.”
― William Faulkner, The Wild Palms

“A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. ”
― William Faulkner

“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself”
― William Faulkner

“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.”
― William Faulkner