All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe past is never dead, it is not even past.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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