All William Faulkner Quotes
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
William Faulkner
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Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.
William Faulkner
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Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.
William Faulkner
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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
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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.
William Faulkner in
Dreams
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The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
William Faulkner
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Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.
William Faulkner
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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 music would have done better.
William Faulkner
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The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.
William Faulkner
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The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.
William Faulkner
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