Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFacts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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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