Only when the clock stops does time come to life
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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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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Civilization begins with distillation
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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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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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