Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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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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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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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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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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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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