Knows Quotes by William Faulkner

14 Knows quotes by William Faulkner

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Faulkner’s Southern prose can be dense, yet these 14 snippets provide a concise glimpse into his take on what it means to truly know.

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

William Faulkner

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You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.

William Faulkner

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I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is; I've heard about it, but I never saw it.

William Faulkner

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It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to…

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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to…

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You get born and you try this and you don't know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born…

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I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can…

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I never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I'm going to give her. That's the only way to manage…

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Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will…

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When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step…

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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…

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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.…

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows…

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It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and…

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It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged…

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I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil,

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And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

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“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice,…

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

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“What modren ideas?” pap said. “I didn’t know there was but one idea about work—until it is done, it ain’t done, and when it…

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“It was only as he put his hand on the door that he became aware of complete silence beyond it, a silence which he…

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“She has no mother because fatherblood hates with love and pride, but motherblood with hate loves and cohabits.”

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“Byron listened quietly, thinking to himself how people everywhere are about the same, but that it did seem that in a small town, where…

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“It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I…

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