Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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