I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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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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 we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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