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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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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 quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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