I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRead, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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She was the captain of her soul
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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 man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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History is not was, it is.
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