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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTruth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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…
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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