William Faulkner Quotes
No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Wonder. Go on and wonder.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Civilization begins with distillation
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
William FaulknerWilliam 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 FaulknerWilliam 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 FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner 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.
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