Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf there is a God what the hell is He for?
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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 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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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 last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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