It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWe must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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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 books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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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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