People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBelieve that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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 is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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