Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLike a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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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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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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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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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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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 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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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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