Quote: No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors. [William Faulkner]
Quote: 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. [William Faulkner]
Quote: A gentleman can live through anything. [William Faulkner]
Quote: A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. [William Faulkner]
Quote: Others have done it before me. I can, too. [William Faulkner]
Quote: . . . 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 forgot the words. [William Faulkner]
Quote: I decline to accept the end of man. [William Faulkner]
Quote: Perhaps they were right in putting love into books, . . . Perhaps it could not live anywhere else. [William Faulkner]
Quote: A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. [William Faulkner]
Quote: Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain. [William Faulkner]
Quote: The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. [William Faulkner]
Quote: The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it. [William Faulkner]
Quote: 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. [William Faulkner]
Quote: How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. [William Faulkner]
Quote: I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express . . . but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure must would have done better. [William Faulkner]
Quote: I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. [William Faulkner]
Quote: This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them. [William Faulkner]
Quote: The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey. [William Faulkner]
Quote: Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it. [William Faulkner]
Quote: A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. [William Faulkner]
Quote: I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. [William Faulkner]
Quote: The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next. [William Faulkner]
Quote: The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. [William Faulkner]
Quote: If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us. [William Faulkner]
Quote: If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies. [William Faulkner]