The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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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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History is not was, it is.
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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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