There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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