The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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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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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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