William Faulkner Quotes
No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
William FaulknerWilliam 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 FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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