Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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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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I 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.
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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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