William Faulkner Quotes
The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner If there is a God what the hell is He for?
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner She was the captain of her soul
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Try to be better than yourself.
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