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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
I 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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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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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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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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