William Faulkner Quotes
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William Faulkner
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"If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green. If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won t."
William Faulkner
Topics:
America
"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."
William Faulkner
Topics:
Christianity
"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
Topics:
American Novelist
"I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail."
William Faulkner
Topics:
Optimism
"If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies."
William Faulkner
Topics:
American Novelist
"Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else."
William Faulkner
Topics:
American Novelist
"Pointless... like giving caviar to an elephant."
William Faulkner
Topics:
American Novelist
"The salvation of the world is in man's suffering."
William Faulkner
Topics:
American Novelist
"The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey."
William Faulkner
Topics:
American Novelist
"To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi."
William Faulkner
Topics:
American Novelist
"Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets."
William Faulkner
Topics:
American Novelist
"We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid."
William Faulkner
Topics:
American Novelist
"You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith."
William Faulkner
Topics:
American Novelist
"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling ''Kilroy was here'' on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass."
William Faulkner
Topics:
Arts And Artists
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary"
William Faulkner
Topics:
Words
"There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't."
William Faulkner
Topics:
Man
"One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy."
William Faulkner
Topics:
Work
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