The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which

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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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Author, was recipient of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature

Born:25th September, 1897
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Starsign: Libra

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