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The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
— William Faulkner
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 use.
— William Faulkner
Any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man
— William Faulkner
It's a comfortable thing, music is.
— William Faulkner
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth.
— William Faulkner
I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.
— John Larroquette
The grass was buzzing in the moonlight where my shadow walked on the grass.
— William Faulkner
It's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse.
— William Faulkner
In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.
— William Faulkner
It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.
— William Faulkner
Civilization begins with distillation
— William Faulkner
In a few thousand years, I who regard you will also have sprung from the loins of African kings.
— William Faulkner
Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
— William Faulkner
Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.
— Leslie Fiedler
Shut it, right there, or I'll give you a hole that won't shut." He pointed the Colt at Clinton, clicking back the hammer.
— C.G. Faulkner
And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.
— William Faulkner
It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
— William Faulkner
Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.
— William Faulkner
In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.
— William Faulkner
He's crossed all the oceans all around the world.
— William Faulkner
I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.
— William Faulkner
It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.
— William Faulkner
My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.
— William Faulkner
I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie
— William Faulkner
I don't like the climate, the people, their way of life. Nothing ever happens and then one morning you wake up and find that you are 65.
— William Faulkner
It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.
— William Faulkner
He never denied it. He never did anything. He never acted like either a nigger or a white man. That was it. That was what made the folks so mad.
— William Faulkner
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
— William Faulkner
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.
— William Faulkner
And when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or women. He aint going to have time to quit.
— William Faulkner
But who knows why a man, though suffering, clings, above all the other well members, to the arm or leg which he knows must come off?
— William Faulkner
Every writer must learn to kill his little darlings.
— William Faulkner
I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!
— William Faulkner
A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning.
— William Faulkner
That's what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which lie the outraged entrails of events.
— William Faulkner
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
— William Faulkner
What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.
— William Faulkner
Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.
— William Faulkner
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.
— William Faulkner
Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.
— William Faulkner
He lived out there, eight miles from any neighbor, in a masculine solitude in what might be called the half-acre gunroom of a baronial splendor.
— William Faulkner
She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.
— William Faulkner
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 me.
— William Faulkner
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.
— William Faulkner
A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own.
— Alfred Kazin
God is foolish at times, but at least He's a gentleman. Dont you know that?" "I always thought of Him as a man," the woman said.
— William Faulkner
Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.
— Ray Bradbury
It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.
— William Faulkner
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.
— William Faulkner
Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's.
— Milan Kundera
Who owned no property and never desired to since the earth was no man's but all men's, as light and air and weather were.
— William Faulkner
Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.
— William Faulkner
It's a curious thing how no matter what's wrong with you, a man'll tell you to have your teeth examined and a woman'll tell you to get married.
— William Faulkner
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
— William Faulkner
It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible
— William Faulkner
It's like a man that's let everything slide all his life to get set on something that will make the most trouble for everybody he knows.
— William Faulkner
I says to myself it's a good thing her eyes are giving out,
— William Faulkner
Whatever life throws at me, I'll take with a smile upon my face and Nirvana's 'Bleach' on the stereo.
— Mark R. Faulkner
That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.
— William Faulkner
I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.
— William Faulkner
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
— William Faulkner
Clocks slay time ... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
— William Faulkner
We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.
— William Faulkner
Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while ...
— William Faulkner
Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
— William Faulkner
I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
— Karen Joy Fowler
Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.
— William Faulkner
I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi
— William Faulkner
It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
— William Faulkner
The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.
— William Faulkner
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
— William Faulkner
You will find that even injustice is scarcely worthy of what you believe yourself to be.
— William Faulkner
Life wasn't made to be easy on folks: they wouldn't ever have any reason to be good and die.
— William Faulkner
He was as calm as a god who has seen both life and death, and seen nothing of particular importance in either of them.
— William Faulkner
And sure enough, even waiting will end ... if you can just wait long enough.
— William Faulkner
Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.
— Tom T. Hall
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
— William Faulkner
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.
— William Faulkner
I could still see the smoke stack. That's where the water would be, healing out to the sea and the peaceful grottoes.
— William Faulkner
Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism ...
— Hunter S. Thompson
Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
— William Faulkner
Patricia: Do you know William Faulkner?Michel: No. Who's he? Have you slept with him? — Jean-Luc Godard
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.
— William Faulkner
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
— William Faulkner
The two girls emanated an incorrigible idle inertia.
— William Faulkner
The work of the artist is to lift up people's hearts and help them endure.
— William Faulkner
Escaped at last into a world of pure illusion in which, safe from any harm, she moved, lived, from attitude to attitude
— William Faulkner
Faith is Feeling Alive In The Heart. — Martina E. Faulkner
Amid the pointing and the horror, the clean flame.
— William Faulkner
I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.
— William Faulkner
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
— William Faulkner
I listen to the voices.
— William Faulkner
