William Faulkner Quotes - Page 7

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• It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

  William Faulkner

  Heart, Men, Privilege

  William Faulkner, Joseph L. Fant, Robert Paul Ashley (1964). “Faulkner at West Point”, p.46, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.

  William Faulkner

  Heart, Riches, Faces

  William Faulkner (1954). “The Best of Faulkner”

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• God created man and He created the world for him to live in and I reckon He created the kind of world He would have wanted to live in if He had been a man--the ground to walk on, the big woods, the trees and the water, and the game to live in it. And maybe He didn't put the desire to hunt and kill game in man but I reckon He knew it was going to be there, that man was going to teach it to himself, since he wasn't quite God himself yet.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Games, Water

  William Faulkner (2012). “A Rose for Emily and Other Stories: A Rose for Emily; The Hound; Turn About; That Evening Sun; Dry September; Delta Autumn; Barn Burning; An Odor of Verbena”, p.119, Random House

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• ...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Giving, Victory

  The Sound and the Fury pt. 2 (1929)

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• So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost. All the wrong environment will do is run his blood pressure up; he will spend more time being frustrated or outraged. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

  William Faulkner

  Running, Artist, Blood

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• How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

  William Faulkner

  Rain, Home, Thinking

  William Faulkner (1955). “Faulkner's county: tales of Yoknapatawpha county”

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• Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

  William Faulkner

  Reading, Writing, Busy

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• I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie

  William Faulkner

  Lying, Knowing, Not Knowing

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.168, Modern Library

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• The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

  William Faulkner

  Honesty, Kids, Artist

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• Caddy smelled like trees.

  William Faulkner

  Tree

  William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.321, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Fiction, Telling The Truth

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• Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

  William Faulkner

  Art, Men, Climbing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don't know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.

  William Faulkner

  Lost Love, Ifs, Knows

  William Faulkner (1946). “The Sound and the Fury: And As I Lay Dying”, New York : The Modern library

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• We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

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  Military, Practice, Liberty

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

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• You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

  William Faulkner

  Baptists, Old Testament, Ulysses

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

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• Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.

  William Faulkner

  Sorrow, Sound, Might

  William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.142, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.

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  Courage, Hurt, Men

  William Faulkner (2011). “Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner”, p.364, Vintage

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• ...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

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  Book, Profound, Turns

  William Faulkner (1972). “Light in August”, Vintage

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• In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.

  William Faulkner

  World, Opinion, Shame

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

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• It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.

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  Two, People, World

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.

  William Faulkner

  Gratitude, Time, Giving

  1951 Requiem for a Nun, act 2, sc.1.

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• Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.

  William Faulkner

  South

  William Faulkner (2013). “Absalom, Absalom!”, p.174, Random House

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• I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in order to sharpen the savor of the pain's surcease, waking into the reality, the more than reality, not to the unchanged and unaltered old time but into a time altered to fit the dream which, conjunctive with the dreamer, becomes immolated and apotheosized

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Pain, Reality

  William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

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• Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

  William Faulkner

  Love, Dream, Regret

  William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.203, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Long, Littles

  Francis Lee Utley, William Faulkner, Lynn Z. Bloom, Arthur F. Kinney (1964). “Bear, man, & God: seven approaches to William Faulkner's The bear”

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