William Faulkner Quotes

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

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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.

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Pointless... like giving caviar to an elephant.

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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol -- cross or crescent or whatever -- that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

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A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

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Between grief and nothing I will take grief.

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I believe that man will not merely endure he will prevail.

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The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

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Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.

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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.

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The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

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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 them. Always keep them guessing.

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Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

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Really the writer doesn't want success.... He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall Kilroy was here that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.

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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

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You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament with faith.

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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

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The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.

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Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels only when the clock stops does time come to life.

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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color, is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

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Poor man. Poor mankind.

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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

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