William Faulkner Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

12 Famous Quotes by William Faulkner
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“A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.”
Fiction Quotes
“There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.”
Needs Quotes
“I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.”
Optimism Quotes
“Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.”
Fact Quotes
“People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.”
Frustration Quotes
“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.”
Art and artists Quotes
“The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.”
Dream Quotes
“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.”
Dreams Quotes
“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.”
Equality Quotes
“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.”
Selfawareness Quotes
“The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.”
Suffering Quotes
“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.”
Time Quotes
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