The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLife is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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