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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRemember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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History is not was, it is.
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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