Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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If 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.
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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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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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