Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNEROne of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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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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Civilization begins with distillation
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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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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