A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHow false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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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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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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