And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.
I decline to accept the end of man.
- Topic: Acceptance
- Location: Arches National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from William Faulkner
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.
Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.
The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.
It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you—religion, pride, anything—it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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More on Acceptance
We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Now is the accepted time.
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
