For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
WILLIAM FAULKNERTime 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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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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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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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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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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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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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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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