It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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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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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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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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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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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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