Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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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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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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