No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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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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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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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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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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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 most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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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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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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