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William Faulkner Quotes

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with Picture Quote #1

It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way Picture Quote #1

No battle is ever won... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools Picture Quote #1

Gettysburg... You can’t understand it. You would have to be born there Picture Quote #1

The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey Picture Quote #1

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors Picture Quote #1

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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget Picture Quote #1

I don’t know anything about inspiration because I don’t know what inspiration is; I’ve heard about it, but I never saw it Picture Quote #1

Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they can stand. They are afraid to find out how tough they are. Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich. Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe before her, she will override you. So the way to treat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him Picture Quote #1

All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away Picture Quote #1

Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less Picture Quote #1

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Ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth Picture Quote #1

To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone Picture Quote #1

When ideas come, I write them; when they don’t come, I don’t Picture Quote #1

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day Picture Quote #1

You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption Picture Quote #1

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month. By temperament I’m a vagabond and a tramp Picture Quote #1

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all Picture Quote #1

A man’s moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream Picture Quote #1

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with (William Faulkner Quotes) It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way (William Faulkner Quotes) No battle is ever won... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools (William Faulkner Quotes) Gettysburg... You can’t understand it. You would have to be born there (William Faulkner Quotes) The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey (William Faulkner Quotes) No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors (William Faulkner Quotes) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself (William Faulkner Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget (William Faulkner Quotes) I don’t know anything about inspiration because I don’t know what inspiration is; I’ve heard about it, but I never saw it (William Faulkner Quotes) Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they can stand. They are afraid to find out how tough they are. Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich. Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe before her, she will override you. So the way to treat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling (William Faulkner Quotes) 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 Quotes) I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him (William Faulkner Quotes) 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 Quotes) Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride (William Faulkner Quotes) 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 Quotes) There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less (William Faulkner Quotes) Ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth (William Faulkner Quotes) To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone (William Faulkner Quotes) When ideas come, I write them; when they don’t come, I don’t (William Faulkner Quotes) I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day (William Faulkner Quotes) You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption (William Faulkner Quotes) The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it (William Faulkner Quotes) 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 Quotes) There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month. By temperament I’m a vagabond and a tramp (William Faulkner Quotes) Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all (William Faulkner Quotes) A man’s moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream (William Faulkner Quotes) A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once (William Faulkner Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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