The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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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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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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