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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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