The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWar and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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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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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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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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