No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFacts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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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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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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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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