Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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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