If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
More Quotes from William Faulkner:
. . . and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forgot the words . . .William Faulkner
A gentleman can live through anything.
William Faulkner
I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, th.
William Faulkner
Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what that other man or woman is doing.
William Faulkner
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.
William Faulkner
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. . . .
William Faulkner
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: dostoevskiDeath is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
David Herbert Lawrence
With regard to my family as I said nothing upon the subject before I may tell you that I have six children living, 1 dead and before I have the pleasure of seeing you I expect another.
John Hawley
The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.
Paul Watzlawick