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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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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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