So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNERShe was the captain of her soul
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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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Time 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.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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