You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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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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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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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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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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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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