As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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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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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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