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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience.
William Faulkner
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Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
William Faulkner -
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
William Faulkner -
Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.
William Faulkner -
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune.
William Faulkner -
I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is; I've heard about it, but I never saw it.
William Faulkner -
So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
William Faulkner
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
William Faulkner -
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 Faulkner -
In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.
William Faulkner -
All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. If I could write all my work again, I'm convinced I could do it better. This is the healthiest condition for an artist. That's why he keeps working, trying again: he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won't.
William Faulkner -
...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
William Faulkner -
If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time.
William Faulkner
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
William Faulkner -
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
William Faulkner -
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
William Faulkner -
There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
William Faulkner -
You can't. You just have to.
William Faulkner -
There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month. By temperament I'm a vagabond and a tramp.
William Faulkner
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...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
William Faulkner -
If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.
William Faulkner -
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. 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.
William Faulkner -
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
William Faulkner