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 FAULKNERNo 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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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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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