Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTo live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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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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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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