To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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