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 FAULKNERHaunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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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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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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She was the captain of her soul
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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