Best William Faulkner Lines
- The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to… Artist
- I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth. Blind
- She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he… Consciousness
- There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event… Any
- I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely… Beginning
- The past is never dead. It's not even past. Dead
- How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. Beneath
- How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset… Attitude
- War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy. Buy
- A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences. Accepting
- Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing. Funny
- Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be. Better
- Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too. Believed
- He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer. Habit
- This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward. Afterward
- Pouring out liquor is like burning books. Book
- You can't. You just have to. Funny
- I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period. All
- Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better. Abolish
- Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to… Always Dream
- All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.… All
- It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he… Alcohol
- When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding… Bigger
- You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to. Beat
- Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it. Behind
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