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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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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.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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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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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
WILLIAM FAULKNER