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Quotes about Acceptance

I love, I will accept no substitute; ...; if happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
— William Faulkner
I see all the while how folks could say he was queer, but that was the very reason couldn't nobody hold it personal. It was like he was outside of it too, same as you, and getting mad at it would be kind of like getting mad at a mud-puddle that splashed you when you stepped in it.
— William Faulkner
I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it.
— William Faulkner
And you came home? To die. Yes. To die? Yes. To die.
— William Faulkner
The Lord can see into the heart. If it is His will that some folks has different ideas of honesty from other folks, it is not my place to question His decree. "I reckon
— William Faulkner
Just like folks. Put off as long as she could having to be brave, knowing all the time that sooner or later she would have to be brave once so she could keep on calling herself a dog, and knowing beforehand what was going to happen when she done it.
— William Faulkner
I reckon she's right. I reckon if there's ere a man or woman anywhere that He could turn it all over to and go away with His mind at rest, it would be Cora. And I reckon she would make a few changes, no matter how He was running it. And I reckon they would be for man's good. Leastways, we would have to like them. Leastways, we might as well go on and make like we did.
— William Faulkner
It's not men who cope with death; they resist, try to fight back and get their brains trampled out in consequence; where women just flank it, envelop it in one soft and instantaneous confederation of unresistance like cotton batting or cobwebs, already de-stingered and harmless, not merely reduced to size and usable but even useful like a penniless bachelor or spinster connection always available to fill an empty space or conduct an extra guest down to dinner.
— William Faulkner
Anlay???n ötesindeki sevgi dedikleri bu iÅŸte: bu gurur, yan?m?zda getirdiÄŸimiz, ameliyat odalar?na ta??d???m?z, inatla, k?zg?nl?kla yeniden topraÄŸa götürdüÄŸümüz bu iÄŸrenç ç?plakl???m?z? saklama isteÄŸimiz.
— William Faulkner
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— William Faulkner
There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds to it.
— William Golding
As for the fear, you'll have to put up with that like the rest of us.
— William Golding