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
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A gentleman can live through anything.
~ William Faulkner
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Well, between Scotch and nothin’, I suppose I’d take Scotch. It’s the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.
~ William Faulkner
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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.
~ William Faulkner
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The artist is of no importance.
~ William Faulkner
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The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it’s the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.
~ William Faulkner
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Life is motion, and motion is concerned with what makes man move — which is ambition, power, pleasure.
~ William Faulkner
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Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
~ William Faulkner
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
~ William Faulkner
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
~ William Faulkner
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