Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
WILLIAM FAULKNEROnly when the clock stops does time come to life
More William Faulkner Quotes
-
-
Only when the clock stops does time come to life
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNER