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The human condition2 quotes
Poor man. Poor mankind. — William Faulkner · 1932Too much happens... Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything... That's what is so terrible. — William Faulkner · 1932Adaptability1 quote
Too much happens... Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything... That's what is so terrible. — William Faulkner · 1932Alcohol1 quote
A man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't. — William Faulkner · 1962American South1 quote
You can't understand it. You would have to be born there. — William Faulkner · 1936Black resilience1 quote
They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own. — William Faulkner · 1942Effects of the past1 quote
The past is never dead. It's not even past. — William Faulkner · 1951Experiencing things1 quote
Between grief and nothing I will take grief. — William Faulkner · 1939Grief1 quote
Between grief and nothing I will take grief. — William Faulkner · 1939Home1 quote
I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it. — William Faulkner · 1956Human nature1 quote
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. — William Faulkner · 1950Past and present1 quote
The past is never dead. It's not even past. — William Faulkner · 1951Race relations1 quote
They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own. — William Faulkner · 1942Stages of life1 quote
A man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't. — William Faulkner · 1962The past1 quote
The past is never dead. It's not even past. — William Faulkner · 1951Writing1 quote
I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it. — William Faulkner · 1956