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William Faulkner9 quotes
The past is never dead. It's not even past. — William Faulkner · 1951You can't understand it. You would have to be born there. — William Faulkner · 1936Poor man. Poor mankind. — William Faulkner · 1932Between grief and nothing I will take grief. — William Faulkner · 1939They 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 · 1942I 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 · 1950All 9 quotes →