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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBut I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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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 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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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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