So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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