The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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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 take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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