We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTruth; 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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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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The 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.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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