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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERUnless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
More William Faulkner Quotes
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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Civilization begins with distillation
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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