Only when the clock stops does time come to life
WILLIAM FAULKNERLet 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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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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She was the captain of her soul
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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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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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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