So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBut I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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