War Quotes by William Faulkner

14 War quotes by William Faulkner

William Faulkner translates the chaos of battle into haunting prose, his war‑related passages echoing the tragedy and resilience that define human struggle.

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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

William Faulkner

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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

William Faulkner

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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

William Faulkner

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No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

William Faulkner

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So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe…

William Faulkner

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The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day…

William Faulkner

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“War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy. His wife and children may be shoeless; someone…

William Faulkner

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The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent,…

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the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing…

William Faulkner

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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…

William Faulkner

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“I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a…

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War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose…

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“battles lost not alone because of superior numbers and failing ammunition and stores, but because of generals who should not have been…

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“ It's because she wants it told he thought so that people whom she will never see and whose names she will…

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And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

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“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice,…

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“What modren ideas?” pap said. “I didn’t know there was but one idea about work—until it is done, it ain’t done, and when it…

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“She has no mother because fatherblood hates with love and pride, but motherblood with hate loves and cohabits.”

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