Best William Faulkner Quotations
- Read, read read. Read everything. Funny
- Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico Begins
- No man can write who is not first a humanitarian Firsts
- Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there. Born
- I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone. Cyclone
- People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is… Able
- A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries,… Away Like
- Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I’d take Scotch. It’s the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find. D Take
- I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone. Anyone
- Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect… Affinity
- Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love? Affirm
- All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. All
- By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material… Artist
- With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up… Begins
- Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if we were… Act
- Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home. Hemingway
- What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to… Completed
- My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write. Best
- If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to… All
- 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 and… Clanged
- I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's… Abilities
- 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 get up feeling… Actual
- Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written. Board
- Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world. Damaging
- It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget. Anyone
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