Quotes by William Faulkner
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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.
American writer 1897-1962
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
American writer 1897-1962
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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.
American writer 1897-1962
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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.
American writer 1897-1962
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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
American writer 1897-1962
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Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
American writer 1897-1962
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I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
American writer 1897-1962
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
American writer 1897-1962
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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.
American writer 1897-1962
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
American writer 1897-1962
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