William Faulkner Quotes About Leaving

Quotes about: Leaving

• So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Men, Imagination

  William Faulkner (2013). “Requiem For A Nun”, p.230, Random House

• He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and compassion and sacrifice. See Poets & Writers

  William Faulkner

  Teaching, Heart, Sacrifice

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950

• It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] 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

  Book, Ambition, Effort

  William Faulkner, Joseph Leo Blotner (1978). “Selected letters of William Faulkner”, Vintage

• It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

  William Faulkner

  Ambition, Leaving, Individual

  William Faulkner, Joseph Leo Blotner (1978). “Selected letters of William Faulkner”, Vintage

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