Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWe must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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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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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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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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History is not was, it is.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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