You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
WILLIAM FAULKNERClocks 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.
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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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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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