We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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