Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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