I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You l…

William Faulkner
277 citations
I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
Thought Truth
25

More Author Quotes

Between grief and nothing, I will take grief. ✨ If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem The Wild Palms (1939)
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. ✨ Personal Quotes/ Biography. www.imdb.com.
Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire. ✨ William Faulkner (2011). FAULKNER READER, p.126, Modern Library

I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes