Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHistory is not was, it is.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Because 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.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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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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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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