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 FAULKNERThe 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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History is not was, it is.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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