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.
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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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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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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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