I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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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.
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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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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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 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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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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