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Letter "W" » William Faulkner Quotes
«We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
caste, castes, caste system, degrees, degrees of freedom, degree of freedom, Free to Choose, hierarchies, hierarchy, hierarchy of, military rank, rank
«I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bereavement, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, in reality, nihilist, nihilists, phenomenon, tenant, tenanted, tenanting, tenants, tenement, tenements, town
«Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Tragedy
| Keywords:
basest, physical thing, sustained
«The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Balzac, homer, new to, one thousand, publishers, Two thousand
«Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
extends, gulf, Gulf of, Gulf of Mexico, hotel, lobby, lobbying, Mississippi, South, Tennessee
«The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use. . . .»
«The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Earth
| Keywords:
homemade, launch, quarreling, spaceship, worthless
«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.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
agony, award, awarded, awarding, least of all, materials, profit, sweat, The Agony and, work in
«Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bordello, good morning, landlord, Landlords, mornings, The Landlord
«It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.»
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