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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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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The 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.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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