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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA man is the sum of his misfortunes.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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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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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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