So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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She was the captain of her soul
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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