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 FAULKNERWhatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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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She was the captain of her soul
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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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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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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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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 bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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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.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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