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 FAULKNERHe 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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 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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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