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 FAULKNERClocks 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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.
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She was the captain of her soul
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