Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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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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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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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History is not was, it is.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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