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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERArtists 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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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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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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