56 Quotations by William Faulkner
- 21. It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight ...

- 22. Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to wri ...

- 23. Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that ...

- 24. Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

- 25. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little ...

- 26. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little ...

- 27. No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

- 28. No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's i ...

- 29. No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's i ...

- 30. One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after ...

- 31. Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear ...

- 32. People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't k ...

- 33. Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just lik ...

- 34. Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Inj ...

- 35. The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so ...

- 36. The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so ...

- 37. The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the revi ...

- 38. The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be ...

- 39. The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

- 40. The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship ...

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