Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people.
~ William Faulkner

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You should approach Joyce’s Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
~ William Faulkner

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Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn’t have needed anyone since.
~ William Faulkner

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The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.
~ William Faulkner

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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move.
~ William Faulkner

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A gentleman can live through anything.
~ 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 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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