The past is never dead, it is not even past.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNever be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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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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