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.
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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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She was the captain of her soul
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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