Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAn artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
More William Faulkner Quotes
-
-
No one individual can tell the truth.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
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 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 FAULKNER -
Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
WILLIAM 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 FAULKNER -
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Clocks 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 FAULKNER -
But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
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 FAULKNER -
Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
WILLIAM FAULKNER