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T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "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."

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.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi."

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.




T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest"

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.




T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain."

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do."

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't."

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.




T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders."

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "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."

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.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "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."

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.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."

I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other."

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.




T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once."

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "The past is never dead. It's not even past."

The past is never dead. It's not even past.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in."

The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past."

Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith."

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies."

The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults."

You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets."

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences."

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich."

Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "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."

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.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption."

You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "Civilization begins with distillation"

Civilization begins with distillation



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico"

Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid."

Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less."

There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "Pouring out liquor is like burning books."

Pouring out liquor is like burning books.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863..."

For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863...



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find."

Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why."

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "The salvation of the world is in man's suffering."

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station…."

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid."

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand."

And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly."

It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write."

My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "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..."

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...



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "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."

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.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky."

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "Wonder. Go on and wonder."

Wonder. Go on and wonder.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow."

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "The best fiction is far more true than any journalism."

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "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."

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.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing."

Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.



T.T. Faulkner Quotes: "I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone."

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.