We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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