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William Faulkner

Birthday: September 25, 1897
Deathday: July 06, 1962
Category: American Novelist
Type: Novelist
National: American

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A gentleman can live through anything....

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to...

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for...

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all...

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection....

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can...

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't...

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it...

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

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get...

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with...

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

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing,...

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed...

I believe that man will not merely endure. He will...

I decline to accept the end of man....

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot...

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any...

I never know what I think about something until I...

I would say that music is the easiest means in...

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't...

I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt...

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will...

If I had not existed, someone else would have written...

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a...

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the...

It's a shame that the only thing a man can...

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can...

Man will not merely endure; he will prevail....

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude...

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer...

My own experience has been that the tools I need...

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so...

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps...

Pointless... like giving caviar to an elephant....

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which...

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics....

The best job that was ever offered to me was...

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to...

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two...

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away...

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even...

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

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day...

The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco,...

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence,...

This is a free country. Folks have a right to...

To live anywhere in the world today and be against...

To understand the world, you must first understand a place...

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with...

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not...

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid....

Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch....

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher...