I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYour illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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