William Faulkner Quotes

American writer and Nobel Prize laureate

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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
– William Faulkner

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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
– 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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
– William Faulkner

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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
– William Faulkner

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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
– William Faulkner

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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
– William Faulkner

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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
– William Faulkner

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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
– William Faulkner

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No one individual can tell the truth.
– 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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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

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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
– 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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest.
– 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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
– William Faulkner

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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

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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

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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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And he was not old enough to talk and say nothing at the same time.
– William Faulkner

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

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Perhaps love cannot live anywhere but books.
– 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 salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
-William Faulkner

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