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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTeach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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