Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Someone 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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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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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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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She was the captain of her soul
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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