I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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 only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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