Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
WILLIAM FAULKNERWomen know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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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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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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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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