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 FAULKNERAn artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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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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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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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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