Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBecause 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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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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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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