Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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