Only when the clock stops does time come to life
WILLIAM FAULKNERHollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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