Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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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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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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