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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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