Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWonder. Go on and wonder.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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History is not was, it is.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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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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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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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.
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