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 could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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History is not was, it is.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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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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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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