A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
WILLIAM FAULKNERShe was the captain of her soul
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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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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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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