She was the captain of her soul
WILLIAM FAULKNERFor 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 a story is in you, it has to come out.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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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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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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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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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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