Quotes about Life by William Faulkner

3 quotes about Life by William Faulkner

William Faulkner

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being...

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.

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It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.

Quote by William Faulkner about life

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.

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