We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWe must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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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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Civilization begins with distillation
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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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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