The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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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