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 FAULKNERTo understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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 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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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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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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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