William Faulkner Quotes - Page 7

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• ...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Needs, Seems

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.

  William Faulkner

  Believe, Eye, Men

  "Light in August" by William Faulkner, (Ch. 2), 1932.

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• ...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...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. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Giving, Victory

  The Sound and the Fury pt. 2 (1929)

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• Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.

  William Faulkner

  Believe, Men, Evil

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.105, Modern Library

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• Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

  William Faulkner

  Sacrifice, Curiosity, Mistress

  William Faulkner (2011). “Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion”, p.969, Modern Library

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• Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.

  William Faulkner

  Heart, Riches, Faces

  William Faulkner (1954). “The Best of Faulkner”

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• The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

  William Faulkner

  Heartbreak, Lost Love, Forever

  William Faulkner (2014). “Soldier's Pay”, p.319, Random House

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• 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

  Honesty, Kids, Artist

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• Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

  William Faulkner

  Reading, Writing, Busy

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• A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Fiction, Telling The Truth

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• Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.

  William Faulkner

  Care, Said, Don't Care

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• Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.

  William Faulkner

  Negative, Purity, States

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.116, Modern Library

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• You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

  William Faulkner

  Baptists, Old Testament, Ulysses

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• The past isn't over. It isn't even past.

  William Faulkner

  Past, Over It

  "Requiem for a Nun". Book by William Faulkner, 1951.

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• You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don't know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.

  William Faulkner

  Lost Love, Ifs, Knows

  William Faulkner (1946). “The Sound and the Fury: And As I Lay Dying”, New York : The Modern library

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• ...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Profound, Turns

  William Faulkner (1972). “Light in August”, Vintage

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• Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

  William Faulkner

  Art, Men, Climbing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.

  William Faulkner

  Two, People, World

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.

  William Faulkner

  Gratitude, Time, Giving

  1951 Requiem for a Nun, act 2, sc.1.

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• Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

  William Faulkner

  Strange, Folly, Monotonous

  William Faulkner (2011). “Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner”, p.91, Vintage

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• I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in order to sharpen the savor of the pain's surcease, waking into the reality, the more than reality, not to the unchanged and unaltered old time but into a time altered to fit the dream which, conjunctive with the dreamer, becomes immolated and apotheosized

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Pain, Reality

  William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

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• In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.

  William Faulkner

  World, Opinion, Shame

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

  William Faulkner

  Love, Dream, Regret

  William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.203, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Voice, Pillars

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950

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• In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.

  William Faulkner

  Certain, Amount

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