War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
WILLIAM FAULKNEROne of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
More William Faulkner Quotes
-
-
Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
WILLIAM 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 FAULKNER -
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
WILLIAM 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 FAULKNER -
History is not was, it is.
WILLIAM 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 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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Read, read read. Read everything.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
If there is a God what the hell is He for?
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
WILLIAM 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 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 FAULKNER