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 FAULKNERWomen know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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History is not was, it is.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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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