People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYour illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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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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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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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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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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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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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