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William Faulkner Quotes about Past

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The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads

The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.

William Faulkner
Drama, Taken, Past

Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.

William Faulkner
Sweet, Memories, Past

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

William Faulkner
Wisdom, Past, Heredity And Environment
Requiem for a Nun act 1 (1951)

The past isn't over. It isn't even past.

William Faulkner
Past, Over It
"Requiem for a Nun". Book by William Faulkner, 1951.

You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.

William Faulkner
Real, Past, History

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

William Faulkner
Past, Substitutes, Something Better
William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.169, Modern Library

A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

William Faulkner
Past, Simple, Men

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