People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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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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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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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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