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William Faulkner Quotes: "A man is the sum of his misfortunes."

A man is the sum of his misfortunes.



William Faulkner Quotes: "I don't want money badly enough to work for it."

I don't want money badly enough to work for it.




William Faulkner Quotes: "Love doesn't die; the men and women do."

Love doesn't die; the men and women do.



William Faulkner Quotes: "The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written."

The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.




William Faulkner Quotes: "A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream."

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.



William Faulkner Quotes: "Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing."

Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.



William Faulkner Quotes: "Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all."

Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.




William Faulkner Quotes: "The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means."

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.



William Faulkner Quotes: "I decline to accept the end of man."

I decline to accept the end of man.



William Faulkner Quotes: "I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are."

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.



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

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



William Faulkner Quotes: "And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough."

And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.




William Faulkner Quotes: "Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error."

Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.



William Faulkner Quotes: "Who gathers the withered rose?"

Who gathers the withered rose?



William Faulkner Quotes: "I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him."

I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.



William Faulkner Quotes: "The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience"

The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience



William Faulkner Quotes: "The past isn't over. It isn't even past."

The past isn't over. It isn't even past.



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

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



William Faulkner Quotes: "This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward."

This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.



William Faulkner Quotes: "Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written."

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.



William Faulkner Quotes: "I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil."

I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.



William Faulkner Quotes: "A gentleman can live through anything."

A gentleman can live through anything.



William Faulkner Quotes: "any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man"

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man



William Faulkner Quotes: "When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't."

When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.



William Faulkner Quotes: "Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature."

Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.



William Faulkner Quotes: "If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time"

If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time



William Faulkner Quotes: "Idleness breeds our better virtues."

Idleness breeds our better virtues.



William Faulkner Quotes: "We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always."

We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.



William Faulkner Quotes: "Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique."

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique.



William Faulkner Quotes: "In writing, you must kill all your darlings."

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.



William Faulkner Quotes: "Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is."

Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.



William Faulkner Quotes: "Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?"

Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?



William Faulkner Quotes: "The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene."

The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.



William Faulkner Quotes: "She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do."

She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.



William Faulkner Quotes: "With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow."

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow.



William Faulkner Quotes: "I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie"

I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie



William Faulkner Quotes: "Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home."

Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.



William Faulkner Quotes: "Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant."

Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.



William Faulkner Quotes: "Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins."

Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.



William Faulkner Quotes: "Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing."

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.



William Faulkner Quotes: "The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him."

The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.



William Faulkner Quotes: "Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world."

Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.



William Faulkner Quotes: "It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000."

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.



William Faulkner Quotes: "Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity."

Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.



William Faulkner Quotes: "Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?"

Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?



William Faulkner Quotes: "Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you"

Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you



William Faulkner Quotes: "No one individual can tell the truth."

No one individual can tell the truth.



William Faulkner Quotes: "If there is a God what the hell is He for?"

If there is a God what the hell is He for?



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

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.