Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSince man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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