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Top 450 William Faulkner Quotes (2024 Update)
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William Faulkner Quote: “My mother is a fish.”
William Faulkner Quote: “Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.”
William Faulkner Quote: “Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.”
William Faulkner Quote: “Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
William Faulkner Quote: “A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it’s liable to strike anywhere, like lightning.”
William Faulkner Quote: “Memory believes before knowing remembers.”
William Faulkner Quote: “No man can write who is not first a humanitarian.”
William Faulkner Quote: “It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.”
William Faulkner Quote: “Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.”
William Faulkner Quote: “There is no was.”
William Faulkner Quote: “Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.”
William Faulkner Quote: “The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”
William Faulkner Quote: “I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.”
William Faulkner Quote: “There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it’s the risk, the gamble. In any event it’s a thing I need.”
William Faulkner Quote: “An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.”
William Faulkner Quote: “All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.”
William Faulkner Quote: “A gentleman can live through anything.”
William Faulkner Quote: “It’s always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.”
William Faulkner Quote: “It’s the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there’s always something to wake up tomorrow morning to do.”
William Faulkner Quote: “She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.”
William Faulkner Quote: “Who gathers the withered rose?”
William Faulkner Quote: “Pouring out liquor is like burning books.”
William Faulkner Quote: “They killed us, but they ain’t whooped us yet.”
William Faulkner Quote: “Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.”
William Faulkner Quote: “Wonder. Go on and wonder.”
William Faulkner Quote: “Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.”
William Faulkner Quote: “Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest.”
William Faulkner Quote: “I am not one of those women who can stand things.”
William Faulkner Quote: “Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.”
William Faulkner Quote: “I will never lie again.”
William Faulkner Quote: “Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.”
William Faulkner Quote: “Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.”
William Faulkner Quote: “Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.”
William Faulkner Quote: “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 Quote: “My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company’s good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.”
William Faulkner Quote: “At least this will be my chance to find out if I am what I think I am or if I just hope; if I am going to do what I have taught myself is right or if I am just going to wish I were.”
William Faulkner Quote: “An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.”
William Faulkner Quote: “Idleness breeds our better virtues.”
William Faulkner Quote: “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”
William Faulkner Quote: “You should approach Joyce’s Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.”
William Faulkner Quote: “A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.”
William Faulkner Quote: “The writer in America isn’t part of the culture of this country. He’s like a fine dog. People like him around, but he’s of no use.”
William Faulkner Quote: “So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice...”
William Faulkner Quote: “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 Quote: “If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time.”
William Faulkner Quote: “It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.”
William Faulkner Quote: “A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.”
William Faulkner Quote: “It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.”
William Faulkner Quote: “She was the captain of her soul.”
William Faulkner Quote: “I’m bad and I’m going to hell, and I don’t care. I’d rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.”
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