A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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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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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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