So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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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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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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 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.
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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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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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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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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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History is not was, it is.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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