Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThere are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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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Civilization begins with distillation
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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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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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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