We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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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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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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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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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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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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