At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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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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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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