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Quote by William Faulkner
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by art

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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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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Maybe it was because like not only finds like; it cant even escape from being found by its like. Even when its just like in one thing, because even them two with the same like was different. – William Faulkner

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Differences
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Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. – Thomas Wolfe

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Im not interested in pop art. – Billy Corgan

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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. – C. S. Lewis

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