No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNERShe was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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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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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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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 books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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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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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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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 man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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