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 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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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Try to be better than yourself.
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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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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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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.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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