I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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