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…
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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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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