But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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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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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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