A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTime is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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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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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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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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