American writer and Nobel Prize laureate
No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. – William Faulkner
Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other. – 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
If there is a God what the hell is He for? – William Faulkner
Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid. – William Faulkner
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder. – William Faulkner
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults. – William Faulkner
I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day. – William Faulkner
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too. – William Faulkner
No one individual can tell the truth. – William Faulkner
Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself. – William Faulkner
Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window. – William Faulkner
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. – William Faulkner
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
Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest. – William Faulkner
Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do. – William Faulkner
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. – William Faulkner
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always. – William Faulkner
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth. – William Faulkner
Making or getting money is a kind of game where there are not any rules at all. – William Faulkner
And he was not old enough to talk and say nothing at the same time. – William Faulkner
The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past. – William Faulkner
Perhaps love cannot live anywhere but books. – William Faulkner
Writing is one-third imagination, one-third experience, and one third observation. – William Faulkner
The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering. -William Faulkner
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