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William Faulkner

"Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid."

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"Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid."

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"I noticed that volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, though are not good events, they are better than the silence of good people when bad people take the podium. The latter are to an extent uncontrollable, but the former can be stopped."

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"To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm and withstand -- such is the example which nations need and the light which electrifies them."

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"Be bold, speak from your heart."

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"By faith we will become strong and withstand the spiritual battle warring against us."

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"Risk little, earn little. Risk much, earn much. Risk all, earn all."

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"Maybe we live in danger, but we live not in fear."

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"The world is full of haters, stand for what you believe in and believe in what you stand for."

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"One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it."

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"We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever. Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them."

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"I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it."
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"Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too."
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"Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act."
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"When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get."
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"It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister."
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"You don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults."
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"Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks."
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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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"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."
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"Listen: it's got to be all honeymoon, always. Either heaven, or hell: no comfortable safe peaceful purgatory between for you and me to wait in until good behavior or forbearance or shame or repentance overtakes us."
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