Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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Civilization begins with distillation
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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