Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

~ William Faulkner

William Faulkner Faulkner Inspirational Motivational

Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

~ William Faulkner

William Faulkner Faulkner South Writing

Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.

~ Kelli Jae Baeli

Kelli Jae Baeli Faulkner Periods Punctuation Writing

I think the best way I can put it,” Tom summarized, “was what I was once told that a Confederate prisoner said to his Union captor. The Yank said: ‘Why do you fight us so hard, Reb?’, and his prisoner replied: ‘Because you are here, Yank’.

~ C.g. Faulkner

C.g. Faulkner Confederate Faulkner Fortner War Western

If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He's the role model you need.

~ Arinn Dembo

Arinn Dembo Brett Easton Ellis Faulkner Humor Literature Narcissism

Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why should not their religion drive them to crucifixion of themselves and one another? he thinks.

~ William Faulkner

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Amid the pointing and the horror the clean flame.

~ William Faulkner

William Faulkner Clean Flame Existentialism Faulkner Fire Of Love Madness

Amid the pointing and the horror, the clean flame.

~ William Faulkner

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