The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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 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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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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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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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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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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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 field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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