All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAll of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
WILLIAM FAULKNERClocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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 FAULKNERThe work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFacts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTo 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 FAULKNERCivilization begins with distillation
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGiven the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThere are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
WILLIAM FAULKNER