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 FAULKNERI 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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