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Time Quotes by William Faulkner
- At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself,…
- I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in order to sharpen…
- Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with…
- My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.
- Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they…
- The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to…
- 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.…
- Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
- He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word…
- ...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…
- I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he…
- 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…
- A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
- Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
- We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.
- And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long…
- The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as…
- The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And…
- 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…
- If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time
- It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in…
- ...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
- Where the shadow of the bridge fell I could see down for a long way, but not as far as the bottom. When you leave…
- Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for…
- I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to…
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