Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe past is never dead, it is not even past.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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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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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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