Civilization begins with distillation
WILLIAM FAULKNERA bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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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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