I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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