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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLife is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept 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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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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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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