The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLove doesn’t die; the men and women do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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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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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. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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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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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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