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 Quotations
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Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, Not because they never found it, But because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
I believe that man will not merely endure he will prevail.
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.