I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage … - William Faulkner

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A hard beginnyng makth a good endyng.

William Faulkner

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

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. . . how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.

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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

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Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

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When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the narrating inner life. To be alone in the presence of one's thought is not a value, only a common practice.

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In the election campaign of 1930, Hitler seldom spoke explicitly of Jews. The crude tirades of the early 1920s were missing altogether. 'Living-space' figured more prominently, posed against the alternative international competition for markets. . . The key theme now was the collapse of Germany under parliamentary democracy and party government into a divided people with separate and conflicting interests, which only the NSDAP could overcome by creating a new unity of the nation, transcending class, estate and profession.

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The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.

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