A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTo understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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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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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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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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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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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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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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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