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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHaunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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