Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSo, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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 love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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 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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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