Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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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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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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