If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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 is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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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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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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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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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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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