If there is a God what the hell is He for?
WILLIAM FAULKNEROnly she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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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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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Yes. 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.
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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.
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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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