One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
WILLIAM FAULKNEROnly when the clock stops does time come to life
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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