I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
WILLIAM FAULKNERMemory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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.
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