The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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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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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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