I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
WILLIAM FAULKNERArtists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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