William Faulkner Quotes - Page 2

American writer and Nobel Prize laureate

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
– William Faulkner

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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
– William Faulkner

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Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
– William Faulkner

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Writing is one-third imagination, one-third experience, and one third observation.
– William Faulkner

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The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.
– William Faulkner

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The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.
– William Faulkner

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Making or getting money is a kind of game where there are not any rules at all.
– William Faulkner

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She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
– William Faulkner

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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
– William Faulkner

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She was the captain of her soul.
– William Faulkner

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Perhaps love cannot live anywhere but books.
– William Faulkner

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The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
– William Faulkner

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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
– William Faulkner

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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
– William Faulkner

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Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
– William Faulkner

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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
– William Faulkner

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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

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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
– William Faulkner

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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
– William Faulkner

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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
– William Faulkner

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