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 FAULKNERAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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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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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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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