Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
WILLIAM FAULKNERMen have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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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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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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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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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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