56 Quotations by William Faulkner
- 1. …when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to yo ...
- 2. A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the ...
- 3. A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
- 4. All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failur ...
- 5. Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your ...
- 6. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too b ...
- 7. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yours ...
- 8. Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
- 9. Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
- 10. Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.
- 11. Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.
- 12. Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
- 13. I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone amo ...
- 14. I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whateve ...
- 15. I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much tim ...
- 16. I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
- 17. I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
- 18. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any num ...
- 19. If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
- 20. If we Americans are to survive, it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be firs ...
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