As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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