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 FAULKNERLove doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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 books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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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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Civilization begins with distillation
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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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