Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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History is not was, it is.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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