Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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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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.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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