Quotes by
William Faulkner |
1897-1962 , American writer, Nobel 1949
American novelist and short story writer whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He was regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century and was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature.Major works: The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936).
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Quotations
| • | The past is never dead. It's not even past. 5 |
| • | If I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything. 5 |
| • | No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. 5 |
| • | Memory believes before knowing remembers. 4 |
| • | Civilization begins with distillation. 3 |
| • | Be scared. You can't help that. But don’t be afraid. Ain’t nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. |
| • | People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too. |
| • | Between grief and nothing I will take grief. |
| • | Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest. |
| • | To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. |
| • | If there is a God what the hell is He for? |
| • | A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. |
| • | 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. |
| • | A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune. |
| • | There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less. |
| • | I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it. |
| • | It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else. |
| • | Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely. |
| • | You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults. |
| • | It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does. |
