The 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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe past is never dead, it is not even past.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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