It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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