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William Faulkner Quotes


A gentleman can live through anything.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

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.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

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.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

I decline to accept the end of man.

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.