The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTime 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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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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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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