The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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