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The poet's voice need not mer...

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

...how false the most profoun...

...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

I draw no petty social lines....

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

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Women ... to them any wedding...

Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

So the only environment the a...

So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost. All the wrong environment will do is run his blood pressure up; he will spend more time being frustrated or outraged. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

God created man and He create...

God created man and He created the world for him to live in and I reckon He created the kind of world He would have wanted to live in if He had been a man--the ground to walk on, the big woods, the trees and the water, and the game to live in it. And maybe He didn't put the desire to hunt and kill game in man but I reckon He knew it was going to be there, that man was going to teach it to himself, since he wasn't quite God himself yet.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Nothing can injure a man's wr...

Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

...I would think how words go...

...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

I, the dreamer clinging yet t...

I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in order to sharpen the savor of the pain's surcease, waking into the reality, the more than reality, not to the unchanged and unaltered old time but into a time altered to fit the dream which, conjunctive with the dreamer, becomes immolated and apotheosized

William Faulkner 414 quotes

I don't know anything about i...

I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is; I've heard about it, but I never saw it.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

One day I was talking to Cora...

One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

You don't dare think whole ev...

You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

It is as though the space bet...

It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Well, between Scotch and noth...

Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

I'm a failed poet. Maybe ever...

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry ?rst, ?nds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

An artist is completely amora...

An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

...It seems hard that a man i...

...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

The next time you try to sedu...

The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

A writer is congenitally unab...

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Because no battle is ever won...

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

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