One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
WILLIAM FAULKNERYour illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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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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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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