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 FAULKNERNow she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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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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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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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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