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.
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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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