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 FAULKNERYou can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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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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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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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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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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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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