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 FAULKNERTalk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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 man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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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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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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