I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
WILLIAM FAULKNERI believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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A 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.
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