A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNever 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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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 only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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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