Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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 think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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