It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSince man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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