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William Faulkner Quotes
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War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war (William Faulkner Quotes)
He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn’t smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond (William Faulkner Quotes)
I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue (William Faulkner Quotes)
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world... would do this, it would change the earth (William Faulkner Quotes)
It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow (William Faulkner Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears! (William Faulkner Quotes)
It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened to you and all it was was just pain, all it did was hurt and so it was all over, all finished, all right (William Faulkner Quotes)
You don’t dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it (William Faulkner Quotes)
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore (William Faulkner Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything good (William Faulkner Quotes)
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction (William Faulkner Quotes)
When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow (William Faulkner Quotes)
And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand (William Faulkner Quotes)
The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene (William Faulkner Quotes)
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 Quotes)
... thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life (William Faulkner Quotes)
And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he’s durn nigh hopeless (William Faulkner Quotes)
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults (William Faulkner Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
A dream is not a very safe thing to be near... I know; I had one once. It’s like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it’s a good dream, it’s worth it (William Faulkner Quotes)
Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed (William Faulkner Quotes)
I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn’t even lie (William Faulkner Quotes)
It’s because I’m alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone (William Faulkner Quotes)
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary (William Faulkner Quotes)
Any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man (William Faulkner Quotes)
It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does (William Faulkner Quotes)