Quotes by William Faulkner

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear....

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If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or...

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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of...

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I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.

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I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since...

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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where...

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I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

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I decline to accept the end of man.

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Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

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

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You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with...

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

#William Faulkner