Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Like 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.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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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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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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