Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSome things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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 next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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