Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTo live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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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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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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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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I 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.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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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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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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