It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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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.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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