It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSome things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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She was the captain of her soul
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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