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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWar and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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