Best William Faulkner Quotes
- 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,… Aim
- Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible. Bible
- I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone… All
- I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are. Anywhere
- The past isn't over. It isn't even past. Even Past
- I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and… Angle
- It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. []… Abolished
- So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you,… Afraid
- 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… Discovered
- I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil, End
- Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder. Cities
- The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no… America
- Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart. Face
- I decline to accept the end of man. Accept
- The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts:… Almost Always
- An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. Amoral
- 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… Afraid
- People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a… Artist
- 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… Agony
- Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he… Day
- Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire. Carried
- The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost. Artist
- It's the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there's always… Always Something
- A gentleman can live through anything. Funny
- A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning. Affliction
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