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 FAULKNERI only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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