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 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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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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I 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.
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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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