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 FAULKNERShe was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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