Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTalk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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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She was the captain of her soul
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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You 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.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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