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Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

William Faulkner

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

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.

William Faulkner

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

William Faulkner

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

William Faulkner

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

A gentleman can live through anything.

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

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

William Faulkner

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

William Faulkner

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

William Faulkner

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

William Faulkner

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

William Faulkner

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

William Faulkner

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

William Faulkner