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.
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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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History is not was, it is.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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