You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAnd even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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