Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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More William Faulkner Quotes
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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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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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.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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