You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
WILLIAM FAULKNEROne 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…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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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.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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