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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLife is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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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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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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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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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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