She was the captain of her soul
WILLIAM FAULKNERTo understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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You 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.
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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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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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