Quote by William Faulkner
There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something t

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

Other quotes by William Faulkner

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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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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Time
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next. – William Faulkner

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My beautiful, my beautiful! That standest meekly by, with thy proudly-arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye! – Caroline Norton

Under his spurning feet, the road
Like an arrowly alpine river flowed
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind…. – Thomas Buchanan Read

It isnt important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race.
Its the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts – Harry S Truman

Ive often said theres nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse. – Will Rogers

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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing. – Kate Smith

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