William Faulkner Quotes - Page 4

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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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• Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

  William Faulkner

  Beautiful, Men, Ideas

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Mar. 1973

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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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• 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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• Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

  William Faulkner

  Book

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

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• History is not was, it is.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Motivational, History

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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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• I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.

  William Faulkner

  Way, Values

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.188, Modern Library

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• Who gathers the withered rose?

  William Faulkner

  Rose, Withered

  William Faulkner (2006). “Novels, 1926-1929”

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• I don't want money badly enough to work for it.

  William Faulkner

  Want, Enough

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

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• The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

  William Faulkner

  Heart, Writing, Conflict

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• In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Darling

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• Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950

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• People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

  William Faulkner

  People, Matter, Sin

  William Faulkner (1964). “As I Lay Dying”, GoodBook Classics

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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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• the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Heart, Agony

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950

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• The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

  William Faulkner

  Mean, Men, Trying

  William Faulkner (1937). “Soldiers' Pay”

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• They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

  William Faulkner

  Liars, Lying, Men

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

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• 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

  Life, Time, Long

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.87, Modern Library

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• Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.

  William Faulkner

  Women, Saint, Villain

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

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• The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...

  William Faulkner

  Poetry, Facts, Not Interested

  "The Town" by William Faulkner, (Ch. 5), 1957.

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• We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

  William Faulkner

  Military, Practice, Liberty

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.151, Modern Library

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• 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

  Boys, July, Years

  "Intruder in the Dust". Book by William Faulkner, 1948.

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• A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Misfortunes

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

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• Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

  William Faulkner

  Running, Gun, Worry

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