People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAnd sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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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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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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