No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting 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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History is not was, it is.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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