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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, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help a man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. 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, William Faulkner Reads

“The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.”
― Robert Graves

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“the only mortal sin is giving up.”
― Stephen King