People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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