It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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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.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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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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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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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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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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