No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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She was the captain of her soul
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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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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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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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