Talk:William Faulkner

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Man will not merely endure; he will prevail... because he has a soul. A spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. Absalom, Absalom! (1936)

Im pretty sure this is from "a fable" not absalom absalom...though there may be very similiar prose in the two works im not sure...if it is what his nobel speech was based off...it's definately "a fable" —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.15.68.97 (talk • contribs) 02:46, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

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

That's from The Reivers

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

• I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.

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

• 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.

• I’m trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.

• Landlord of a bordello! The company’s good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.
  • On the ideal job

• 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.

• 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.

• Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... it could not live anywhere else.
  • Etched into a Unversity desk and attributed to 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.

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

• The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

• The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

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

• 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.

• To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
• Civilization began with distillation.

• Kill your darlings.