The past is never dead, it is not even past.
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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 past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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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.
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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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