William Faulkner Quotes
Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Who gathers the withered rose?
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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