The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHe has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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 end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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