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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFacts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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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.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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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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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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