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 FAULKNERI have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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