If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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History is not was, it is.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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 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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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