William Faulkner said this quote

“ 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. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. ”

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The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

~ William Faulkner

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. 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.

~ 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