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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPerhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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.
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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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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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…
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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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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.
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