The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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 field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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 the captain of her soul
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Try to be better than yourself.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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