Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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