I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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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’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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