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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSuccess is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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 quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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