A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
-
-
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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 -
Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER






