The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWe have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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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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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.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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