So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHaunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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