I 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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Yes. 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.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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