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Only when the clock stops does time come to life

William Faulkner

The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Agony Alone Conflict Good Heart Human Itself Make Problem Worth Write
Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Accept Brave Deserve Earn Enough Fail Find Match Only She Somebody Try Twice
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Aid Anything Help Need Nothing Pride Religion When Realize
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Come Has Out Story
Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Believe Endure Man Merely Prevail
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Act Believe Courage Decency Demand Great Help Know Meet Problem Respect Self
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Could Do Except Just Know Knowmobidy Me Much Not So You
Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Error Learn Mistake Own People Teach Yourself
Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Damnable Fear Human Most Personally Thing Whole World
It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Day Drink Eat Eight Hour Make Man One Shame Thing Work
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Else Infact Look Nobody See Slightly Someone Taken Together Truth
Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Cam Do Not What You
Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Hate Least Me Now She
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Childhood Consequence Date Drama Echo Generation Haunt Image New Perceive Pursue Ripple Road Taken Turn Wrong
The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Curiosity Important Insight Man Most Muse Talent Think Whether Wonder
No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Back Bear Cash Either Got Kidos Matter Money Paper Picture Refuse Young

Only when the clock stops does time come to life

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