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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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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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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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 quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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