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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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