So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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