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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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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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.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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