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 FAULKNERAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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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.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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