A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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