So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSomeone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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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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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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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