Only when the clock stops does time come to life
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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