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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf 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…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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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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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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Someone 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.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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