We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERMy own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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History is not was, it is.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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