William Faulkner Quotes

Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat. - William Faulkner

Well, it's like this. I ain't got to but I can't help it. - William Faulkner

Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find. - William Faulkner

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid. - William Faulkner

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. - William Faulkner

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

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

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them. - William Faulkner

They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion -- not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own. - William Faulkner

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