I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
WILLIAM FAULKNERSomeone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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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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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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