So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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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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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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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