“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“You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.”
— William Faulkner“Clocks slay time... 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“I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.”
— William Faulkner“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
— William Faulkner