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 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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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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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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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