It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWe have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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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.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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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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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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