I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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