Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI 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.
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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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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