It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPeople need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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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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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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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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.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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