No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHe has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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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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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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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 could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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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.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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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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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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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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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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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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