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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.

William Faulkner

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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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Aim Artificial Artist Every Fix Hold Hundred Later Life Look Motion Stranger Year
Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Book Burn Like Liquior Out Pour
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Courage Cowardice Fellow Good Gun Let Run Time Toward Whether Word
Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Error Learn Mistake Own People Teach Yourself
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Buy Drink Man never Poor Thing Two War
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 FAULKNER

Aim Arrest Artificial Artist Every Fix Hold Hundred Later Mena Motion Year
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Bad Better Booze Fifty Fool Happen Man Other Some Such Thing Until Whiskey
She was the captain of her soul
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Captain Her She Soul
The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Despair Field Folly Fool Illusion Man Own Philosopher Reveal Victory
I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Beyond Broken Butterfly Could Curve Dusk Last Light Like Mirror Piece River Saw Smell Supinem Tranquil Tideflat Trembling Upon
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Fortune His Man Sum
Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Absorb Apprentice Carpenter Good Just Like Master Out Raed Study Window Write
If there is a God what the hell is He for?
WILLIAM FAULKNER

For God Hell
I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Blind Individual Look Phase See Think Truth
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Come Has Out Story
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Avatar Condition Existence Fluid Individual Momentary No Only People Such Thing Time

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