You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBelieve that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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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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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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