William Faulkner Quotes - Page 12

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• A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can.

  William Faulkner

  Moving, People, Trying

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• The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.

  William Faulkner

  Hate, Simple, Natural Instinct

  William Faulkner (2011). “Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion”, p.420, Modern Library

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• Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.

  William Faulkner

  Lust, Despair, Valleys

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

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• I listen to the voices.

  William Faulkner

  Voice

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• Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

  William Faulkner

  Memories, Believe, Light

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• We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

  William Faulkner

  Next, Maybe Next Time, Next Time

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• That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

  William Faulkner

  Reading, Writing, Crafts

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• If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Blind, Immortality

  William Faulkner (2012). “A Rose for Emily and Other Stories: A Rose for Emily; The Hound; Turn About; That Evening Sun; Dry September; Delta Autumn; Barn Burning; An Odor of Verbena”, p.164, Random House

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• The reason I don't like interviews is that I seem to react violently to personal questions. If the questions are about the work, I try to answer them. When they are about me, I may answer or I may not, but even if I do, if the same question is asked tomorrow, the answer may be different.

  William Faulkner

  Trying, Different, Answers

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• It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Spring

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• You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.

  William Faulkner

  Sleep, Names, Legs

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• Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

  William Faulkner

  Children, Adults, Accepting

  Jack L. Capps, William Faulkner (1979). “Light in August: a concordance to the novel”

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• So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.

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  Peace, War, Long

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Race, Crosses

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

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• It's because I'm alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone.

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  Different, Would Be, Feels

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• The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

  William Faulkner

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

  George G. Stewart, Robert W. Hamblin, William Faulkner (2009). “Yoknapatawpha, images and voices: a photographic study of Faulkner's County, with passages from classic William Faulkner texts”, Univ of South Carolina Pr

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• A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.

  William Faulkner

  Color, Europe, Fire

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• He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the same as another to him. But in none of them could he be quiet. But the street ran on in its moods and phases, always empty: he might have seen himself as in numberless avatars, in silence, doomed with motion, driven by the courage of flagged and spurred despair; by the despair of courage whose opportunities had to be flagged and spurred.

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  Loneliness, Opportunity, Silence

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.

  William Faulkner

  Love, Desire, Littles

  William Faulkner (1985). “Light in August”, Vintage

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• And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Thinking, Helping

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

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• He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the earth and to hold suzerainty over the earth and the animals on it in His name, not to hold for himself and his descendants inviolable title forever, generation after generation, to the oblongs and squares of the earth, but to hold the earth mutual and intact in the communal anonymity of brotherhood, and all the fee He asked was pity and humility and sufferance and endurance and the sweat of has face for bread.

  William Faulkner

  Humility, Men, Animal

  Francis Lee Utley, William Faulkner, Lynn Z. Bloom, Arthur F. Kinney (1971). “Bear, man, and God: eight approaches to William Faulkner's The bear”, Random House Inc

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• I will never lie again.

  William Faulkner

  Lying, Never Lie

  William Faulkner (1999). “Novels, 1957-1962”

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• He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.

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  Behinds

  William Faulkner (1936). “Absalom, Absalom!”, Random House (NY)

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• War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.

  William Faulkner

  War, Purpose, Fever

  William Faulkner (2011). “A Fable”, p.80, Vintage

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• Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.

  William Faulkner

  Littles, Dear God, Let Me

  William Faulkner (2000). “My Mother is a Fish: A Commonplace Reader of William Faulkner's Fiction”

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