"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth."
~ William Faulkner 💎 #BOTD 1897
"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."
~ William Faulkner
"Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do."
~ William Faulkner
"Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest"
~ William Faulkner
"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
~ William Faulkner
"... If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won't."
~ William Faulkner
"To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi."
~ William Faulkner
"Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time."
~ William Faulkner
"Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain."
~ William Faulkner
"No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors."
~ William Faulkner
"You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults."
~ William Faulkner
"Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid."
~ William Faulkner
"So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you...will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth."
~ William Faulkner
"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."
~ William Faulkner
"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow."
~ William Faulkner
"Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view."
~ William Faulkner
"Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other."
~ William Faulkner
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