No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI’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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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