I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.


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WILLIAM FAULKNER
What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least sc...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
He got off on Lincoln and slavery and dared any man there to deny that Lincoln and the negro and Mos...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
...no man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
He began to breathe deep. He could feel himself breathing deep, as if each time his insides were afr...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
You are suffering from disappointment. But this will pass away. The saddest thing about love, Joe, i...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heart...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Who gathers the withered rose?
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
People. They're really innately, inherently gentle and compassionate and kind. That's what wrings, w...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
The destiny of the land, the nation, the South, the State, the County, was already whirling into the...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indige...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. The...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inerti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
WILLIAM FAULKNER
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried tw...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his o...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
And when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or wom...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Did you ever have a sister? did you?
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Caddy smelled like trees.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
They're shining examples of being active in the community and active for small-forest landowners. Th...
BOB FAULKNER
We were focused against Shelton. We obviously came ready to play. I thought the key to the game was ...
BOB FAULKNER
Against Mercy we played with no intensity. It was not a good effort. We appeared sluggish, but Mercy...
BOB FAULKNER
We want to improve every match; to learn from every match, to be consistent and the number one goal ...
BOB FAULKNER
One of the things that made Epic strong when I wrote the original code was that it never occurred to...
JUDITH FAULKNER
When the sky is clear, there will be eight Reindeer But when you can't see the sky, then Rudolph wil...
IRENE FAULKNER
Clients now can store all types of files as attachments to their email and use our web-based email p...
CHRISTOPHER FAULKNER
I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, no...
JUDITH FAULKNER
All I knew is that I had to stay with her (Hall). She's taller than me but I felt I kept up with her...
ANNESIA FAULKNER
The Simon-Williamson clinic is our priority today. The next step is preparing to accept the business...
CHARLIE FAULKNER
I take my hat off to Erickson. He's a polished high school pitcher who has command of three pitches ...
CRAIG FAULKNER
It's great to see Anderson really step up. He throws strikes and is sneaky fast and hits his spots.
CRAIG FAULKNER
We played the way Venice High is supposed to play. Even if we would have lost tonight, I still would...
CRAIG FAULKNER
Everybody comes to play in the big games and we knew it wasn't going to be easy. They came back and ...
ANNESIA FAULKNER
We had struggled with free throws all season long, so the last couple of days in practice that's wha...
ANNESIA FAULKNER
I'm really excited because these are my first wins (at state). I kind of expected the 200 IM, but I ...
AMANDA FAULKNER
We didn't know it until we got up there (on the medal stand).
AMANDA FAULKNER