How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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