Quotes by William Faulkner about Opinion

10 quotes by William Faulkner about opinion

William Faulkner

A gentleman can live through anything.

A gentleman can live through anything.

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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for...

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I...

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

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I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

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I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't...

I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.

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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, ...

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.

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Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so...

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.

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Perhaps they were right in putting love into books......

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

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There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

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