129 ordspråk av William Faulkner
William Faulkner
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
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I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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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.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
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I never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I'm going to give her. That's the only way to manage them. Always keep them guessing.
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I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express . . . but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure must would have done better.
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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.
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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.
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I'm glad I haven't got the sort of conscience I've got to nurse like a sick puppy all the time.
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I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
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I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.
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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
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
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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.
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