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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Someone 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.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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