William Faulkner Quotes - Page 3

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• She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. 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

  Strong, Capacity To Love, Giving

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

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• I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Lines, Social

  William Faulkner “The Sound and the Fury”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Pouring out liquor is like burning books.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Burning, Pouring

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• . . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste of fall, it’s cool, there’s a lambence, a soft, a luminous quality to the light, as though it came not from just today but from back in the old classic times. It might have fauns and satyrs and the gods and---from Greece, from Olympus in it somewhere. It lasts just for a day or two, then it’s gone. . .the title reminded me of that time, of a luminosity older than our Christian civilization.

  William Faulkner

  Christian, Fall, Light

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• War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

  William Faulkner

  Funny, War, Men

  William Faulkner (2011). “A Fable”, p.26, Vintage

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• The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

  William Faulkner

  Men, World Suffering, Salvation

  William Faulkner (1994). “Novels 1942-1954”

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• The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Men, Old Friends

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• Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. 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

  Mistake, Believe, Writing

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

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• The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

  William Faulkner

  Love, Inspirational, Wisdom

  William Faulkner (2011). “Flags in the Dust: The complete text of Faulkner's third novel, which appeared in a cut version as Sartoris”, p.68, Vintage

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• The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.

  William Faulkner

  Science, Technology, Men

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• A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….

  William Faulkner

  Bus Stops, Logical, Desks

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• It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Waste, Firsts

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

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• 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 Faulkner

  Dream, Possible And Impossible, Perfection

  1956 On his generation of writers. Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

  William Faulkner

  Advice, Inability, Fool

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

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• Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.

  William Faulkner

  Memories, Flesh, Bones

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

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• My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

  William Faulkner

  Drinking, Writing, Scotch Whisky

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

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• 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

  Tired, Men, Thinking

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.104, Modern Library

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• There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.

  William Faulkner

  Three, Thousand, Three Words

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

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• Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

  William Faulkner

  Time, People, Individual

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

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• 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

  Inspiring, Art, Wonder

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

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• Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

  William Faulkner

  Suicide, Home, Men

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• Love doesn't die; the men and women do.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Men And Women, Dies

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• Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

  William Faulkner

  Strong, Writing, Wind

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• I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

  William Faulkner

  Courage, Integrity, Believe

  William Faulkner, Joseph Leo Blotner (1978). “Selected letters of William Faulkner”, Vintage

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• It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

  William Faulkner

  Pride, Religion, Needs

  "The Sound And The Fury".

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