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I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
William Faulkner

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

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

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

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.
William Faulkner

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.
William Faulkner

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
William Faulkner

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.
William Faulkner

Man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
William Faulkner

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.
William Faulkner


Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
William Faulkner

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
William Faulkner

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.
William Faulkner

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
William Faulkner

Pointless... like giving caviar to an elephant.
William Faulkner

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

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

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

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner

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

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Biography
Type: Novelist
Nationality: American
Born: September 25, 1897
Died: July 6, 1962

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