Who gathers the withered rose?
WILLIAM FAULKNEROne of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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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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