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 FAULKNERFear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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History is not was, it is.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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