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 FAULKNERI believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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