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 FAULKNERNo one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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She was the captain of her soul
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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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