147 ordspråk av William Faulkner

William Faulkner

William Faulkner föddes den 25 september 1897 och dog den 6 juli 1962 - Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
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Man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Some things you must always be unable to bear.

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.

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

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.

A gentleman can live through anything.

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

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.

As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose the be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel. . . .

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

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an allusion of philosophers and fools.

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.

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.

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

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