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Quote by William Faulkner
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked of

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

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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

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Art
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William Faulkner
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There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps its the risk, the gamble. In any event its a thing I need. – William Faulkner

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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. – William Faulkner

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. – Bertrand Russell

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I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time – those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything. – Lawrence Durrell

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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. – William A. Foster

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