A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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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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She was the captain of her soul
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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.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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