William Faulkner Quotes - Page 4

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• History is not was, it is.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Motivational, History

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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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• One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...

  William Faulkner

  Work, Men, Eight

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

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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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• 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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• a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Risk, Trying

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

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• In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Darling

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• Who gathers the withered rose?

  William Faulkner

  Rose, Withered

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

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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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• You can't. You just have to.

  William Faulkner

  William Faulkner (2011). “Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner”, p.19, Vintage

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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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• 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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• 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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• I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.

  William Faulkner

  Littles, Time Left, Snob

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

  William Faulkner

  Music, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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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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• 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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• If there is a God what the hell is He for?

  William Faulkner

  If There Is A God, Hell, Ifs

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

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• Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Giving, Littles

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

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• A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

  William Faulkner

  Teaching, Writing, Love And Honor

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950

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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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