Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
WILLIAM FAULKNERUnless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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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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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen 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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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