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 FAULKNERThe books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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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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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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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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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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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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