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 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.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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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.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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Read, read read. Read everything.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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