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Results of search for Author: William Faulkner - Page 1 of 2 Showing results 1 to 10 of 12 total quotations found.
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)

Results from Classic Quotes:

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 Faulkner (1897 - 1962), Interview, 1958
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Results from Cole's Quotables:

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 Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)

Results from Poor Man's College:

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)

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Results of search for Author: William Faulkner - Page 1 of 2 Showing results 1 to 10 of 12 total quotations found.

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