~ William Faulkner Quotes ~

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William Faulkner Quotes


An American writer of novels, short stories, poetry and occasional screenplays.
William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer of novels, short stories, poetry and occasional screenplays.

Here are some famous quotes by William Faulkner.

The past is never dead-it is not even past.

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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

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

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The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat clean quite solvent business.

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Fear is the most damnable damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people.

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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

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Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

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Too much happens ... Man performs engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

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One of the saddest things is the only thing a man can do for 8 hours a day day after day is work. You can't eat 8 hours a day nor drink for 8 hours a day nor make love for 8 hours.