William Faulkner Quotes
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.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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