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 FAULKNERIf a story is in you, it has to come out.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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