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 FAULKNERSomeone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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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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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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