Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can 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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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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 sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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