I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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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.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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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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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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