All William Faulkner Quotes
Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.
William Faulkner
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
William Faulkner in
Equality
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Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
William Faulkner
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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 hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
William Faulkner in
Work
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Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
William Faulkner
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
William Faulkner
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
William Faulkner
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It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.
William Faulkner
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I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
William Faulkner
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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
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This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
William Faulkner
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You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
William Faulkner
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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
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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
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