Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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