Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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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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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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