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Only when the clock stops does time come to life

William Faulkner

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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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Book Friend Knew Loved Man Old One Read Return Young
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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Agree Behaviour Being Christianity Code Follow Human Individual Mena Nature No One Word
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Heartbreaking Stupidity Talk Utter Word
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Better Bother Contemporaries Predecessor Try Yourself
Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Dead Life Long Prepare Process Time
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Bad Classic Do Everything Good How Read Trash
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Bricklaying Interest Let Mechanical Shortcut Surgery Take Technique Write Writer
The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Admire Advice Artist Beat Believe Enough Good Matter Much Nobody Supreme
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Bad Better Booze Fifty Fool Happen Man Other Some Such Thing Until Whiskey
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Else Infact Look Nobody See Slightly Someone Taken Together Truth
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Always Better Contemporaries Do Dream Higher Know Predecessor Shoot Try Yourself
Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Before Cringe Feminine Like Override Success Woman
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

Angel Black Clean Line Long Shine Simple Straight Truth Unchallengable Underibale View White
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Born Get Keep Lot People Same Time Try
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Even Honest Liar Lie Man Same Scare Tell Torture Truth
Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Build Draft First House Strong Wind Write

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