Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBelieve that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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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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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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