A gentleman can live through anything.
More Quotes from William Faulkner:
People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.William Faulkner
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
William Faulkner
The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
William Faulkner
It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.
William Faulkner
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail
William Faulkner
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
William Faulkner
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