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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two oÃ¢â¬â¢clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago.... William Faulkner, Intruder In The Dust - William Faulkner Quotes

For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two oÃ¢â¬â¢clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago.... William Faulkner, Intruder In The Dust

William Faulkner

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it. - William Faulkner Quotes

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.

William Faulkner

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what that other man or woman is doing. - William Faulkner Quotes

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what that other man or woman is doing.

William Faulkner

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest. - William Faulkner Quotes

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.

William Faulkner

American Novelist

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 Quotes

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

American Novelist

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 Quotes

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

Man

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 Quotes

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

Some things you must always be unable to bear. - William Faulkner Quotes

Some things you must always be unable to bear.

William Faulkner

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use. . . . - William Faulkner Quotes

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use. . . .

William Faulkner

Home again, his native land; he was born of it and his bones will sleep in it . . . - William Faulkner Quotes

Home again, his native land; he was born of it and his bones will sleep in it . . .

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Home

Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find. - William Faulkner Quotes

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

William Faulkner

American Novelist

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. - William Faulkner Quotes

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

William Faulkner

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. - William Faulkner Quotes

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

William Faulkner

Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico - William Faulkner Quotes

Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico

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 Quotes

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

American Novelist Art

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors. - William Faulkner Quotes

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

William Faulkner

Grief

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream. - William Faulkner Quotes

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

William Faulkner

American Novelist Conscience

He was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met - William Faulkner Quotes

He was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met

William Faulkner

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing. - William Faulkner Quotes

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

William Faulkner

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. - William Faulkner 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.

William Faulkner

In my time I have seen truth that was anything under the sun but just, and I have seen justice using tools and instruments I wouldn't want to touch with a 10-foot fence rail. - William Faulkner Quotes

In my time I have seen truth that was anything under the sun but just, and I have seen justice using tools and instruments I wouldn't want to touch with a 10-foot fence rail.

William Faulkner

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others - William Faulkner Quotes

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others

William Faulkner

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. - William Faulkner Quotes

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

William Faulkner

Home

The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. - William Faulkner Quotes

The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.

William Faulkner

The work of the artist is to lift up peoples hearts and help them endure - William Faulkner Quotes

The work of the artist is to lift up peoples hearts and help them endure

William Faulkner

Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window. - William Faulkner Quotes

Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.

William Faulkner

It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget. - William Faulkner Quotes

It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.

William Faulkner

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 - William Faulkner 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

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 Quotes

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

William Faulkner

American Novelist Experience

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them. - William Faulkner Quotes

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

William Faulkner

American Novelist Country

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. - William Faulkner Quotes

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

William Faulkner

American Novelist Labor

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. - William Faulkner Quotes

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

American Novelist

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 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.

William Faulkner

American Novelist

. . . 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 Quotes

. . . 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

Fear

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth. - William Faulkner Quotes

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

William Faulkner

American Novelist Earth

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain - William Faulkner Quotes

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain

William Faulkner

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

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

William Faulkner

American Novelist Memory

Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant. - William Faulkner Quotes

Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.

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 Quotes

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

American Novelist

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it. - William Faulkner Quotes

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

William Faulkner

American Novelist

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

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

William Faulkner

Books And Reading

Loving all of it even while he had to hate some of it because he knows now that you don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults. - William Faulkner Quotes

Loving all of it even while he had to hate some of it because he knows now that you don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

William Faulkner

Hate

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other. - William Faulkner Quotes

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

William Faulkner

American Novelist Facts

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. - William Faulkner Quotes

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

William Faulkner

American Novelist

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. - William Faulkner Quotes

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then.

William Faulkner

Art

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. - William Faulkner Quotes

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

American Novelist

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 Quotes

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.

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American Novelist Hell

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies. - William Faulkner Quotes

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

William Faulkner

American Novelist

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi - William Faulkner Quotes

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi

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 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.

William Faulkner

Art

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