The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
WILLIAM FAULKNERI never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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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 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.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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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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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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