The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSome things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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