« All Been Quotes · William Faulkner's Page
Been Quotes by William Faulkner
- My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
- 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…
- They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the…
- All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.
- There is that might-have-been which is the single rock we cling to above the maelstrom of unbearable reality.
- 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…
- He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word…
- In the South you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie about it. Because it means less to women, Father said. He…
- When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe…
- The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding…
- He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
- The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared…
- Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
- 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…
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour