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 FAULKNERYou could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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