I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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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.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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