William Faulkner Quotes - Page 2

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• Wonder. Go on and wonder.

  William Faulkner

  Inspiration, Goes On, Wonder

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.79, Modern Library

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• I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

  William Faulkner

  Advice, Inability, Fool

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

  William Faulkner

  Inspiring, Writing, May

  "A Faulkner perspective: a companion-guide to the limited first edition of the Selected letters of William Faulkner".

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• War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

  William Faulkner

  Funny, War, Men

  William Faulkner (2011). “A Fable”, p.26, Vintage

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• I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.

  William Faulkner

  Way, Values

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.188, Modern Library

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• History is not was, it is.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Motivational, History

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• When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

  William Faulkner

  Running, Horse, Writing

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• The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

  William Faulkner

  Fiction, Journalism, Newspapers

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• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Positive Thinking, Excellence

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

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• Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.

  William Faulkner

  Truth, Honesty, Simple

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• Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.

  William Faulkner

  Rich, Get Rich, Bother

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• We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

  William Faulkner

  Fear, Teaching, Learning

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

  William Faulkner

  Grief, Men, Vices

  "Intruder in the Dust".

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• It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

  William Faulkner

  Yesterday, Tomorrow

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• We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

  William Faulkner

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.151, Modern Library

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• A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

  William Faulkner

  Patience, Years, Mules

  William Faulkner (2011). “Flags in the Dust: The complete text of Faulkner's third novel, which appeared in a cut version as Sartoris”, p.290, Vintage

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• The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Art, Moving

  1956 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

  William Faulkner

  Responsibility, Gentleman, Bears

  William Faulkner (1999). “Novels, 1957-1962”

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• Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.

  William Faulkner

  Writing

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• There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

  William Faulkner

  Funny, Humorous, Drinking

  In James M. Webb and A. Wigfall Green William Faulkner of Oxford (1965) p. 110

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• Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

  William Faulkner

  Strong, Writing, Wind

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• Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Giving, Littles

  William Faulkner (1994). “Novels 1942-1954”

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• Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

  William Faulkner

  Beautiful, Men, Ideas

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Mar. 1973

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• Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.

  William Faulkner

  Sweet, Memories, Past

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• The past is never dead. It's not even past.

  William Faulkner

  Wisdom, Past, Heredity And Environment

  Requiem for a Nun act 1 (1951)

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