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 FAULKNERPerhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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She was the captain of her soul
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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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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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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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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