William Faulkner Quotes

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  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

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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• The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.

  William Faulkner

  Drama, Taken, Past

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  You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

  William Faulkner

  Trying, Can Do

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• It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Waste, Firsts

  William Faulkner (1985). “Light in August”, Vintage

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• Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

  William Faulkner

  Fear, Personality, World

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• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience

  William Faulkner

  Imagination, Three, Source

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• Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

  William Faulkner

  Life, Honesty, Now And Then

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• Only when the clock stops does time come to life

  William Faulkner

  Time, Doe, Clock

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.87, Modern Library

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• Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

  William Faulkner

  Mistake, Errors, People

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Running, Dream

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• If a story is in you, it has to come out.

  William Faulkner

  Stories, Ifs

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• If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

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  Determination, Optimistic, Suffering

  William Faulkner, Noel Polk (1987). “Absalom, Absalom!, typescript setting copy and miscellaneous material”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.

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  Long, Life Is, Process

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• Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

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  Writing, Epic, Study

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• To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

  William Faulkner

  Reality, World, Firsts

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• No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

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  Victory, Battle, Fool

  "The Sound and the Fury". Third International Edition,

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• If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green... If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won't.

  William Faulkner

  Children, Blue, Color

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

  William Faulkner

  Depression, Pain, Numbness

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• Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

  William Faulkner

  Reality, Facts

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• Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

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  Suicide, Home, Men

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• Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.

  William Faulkner

  Helping, Scared

  William Faulkner (2011). “Big Woods: The Hunting Stories”, p.26, Vintage

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• Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

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  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

  William Faulkner

  Love, Faults, Virtue

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