...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels;… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Bad health is the primary reason for all life. Created by disease, within putrefaction, into decay” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“He just thought quietly, 'So this is love. I see, I was wrong about it too', thinking as he had thought before… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness--people and things that are compatible, love… So many people… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. but it’s the dead folks that do him the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“He would have to get up sometime, he knew that, just as all life consists of having to get up sooner or… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I tell you, they were not men after spoils and glory; they were boys riding the sheer tremendous tidal wave of desperate… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“But you cant be alive forever, and you always wear out life long before you have exhausted the possibilities of living. And… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Ladies and gentlemen, I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work - a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I lied," I said. ... "I know it," he said. "Then do something about it. Do anything, just so it's something." "I… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“And George Farr had the town, the earth, the world to himself and his sorrow. Music came faint as a troubling rumor… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, but then he was choosing… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I don’t like the climate, the people, their way of life. Nothing ever happens and then one morning you wake up and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life... and hold it fixed so that 100 years later, when… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“...he remembered his uncle saying once how little vocabulary man really needed to get comfortably and even efficiently through his life, how… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“He was as calm as a god who has seen both life and death, and seen nothing of particular importance in either… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“All right. It is so, then. But not to me. Not in my life and my love.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The river itself is not a hundred yards across, and pa and Vernon and Vardaman and Dewey Dell are the only things in sight… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Luster returned, wearing a stiff new straw hat with a colored band and carrying a cloth cap. The hat seemed to isolate Luster's skull,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil, — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“What modren ideas?” pap said. “I didn’t know there was but one idea about work—until it is done, it ain’t done, and when it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“It was only as he put his hand on the door that he became aware of complete silence beyond it, a silence which he… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
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