Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGiven the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNER