Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with 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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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.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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