So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Try to be better than yourself.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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But 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.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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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