The past is never dead, it is not even past.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBelieve that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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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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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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Haunted 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.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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 end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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