Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTalk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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