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 give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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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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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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