I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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More William Faulkner Quotes
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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She was the captain of her soul
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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