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Creative Quotations from William Faulkner (1897-1962) born Sep 25 US novelist; He wrote about a microcosm of the post-Civil War deep South in The Sound and the Fury, 1929.

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Page 1: Creative Quotations from William Faulkner (1897-1962) born Sep 25 US novelist; He wrote about a microcosm of the post-Civil War deep South in The Sound

Creative Quotations

from William

Faulkner(1897-1962) born Sep 25

US novelist; He wrote about a microcosm of the post-Civil War deep South in The Sound

and the Fury, 1929.

Page 2: Creative Quotations from William Faulkner (1897-1962) born Sep 25 US novelist; He wrote about a microcosm of the post-Civil War deep South in The Sound

A writer needs three things, experience, observation,

and imagination, any two of which… can

supply the lack of the others.

Page 3: Creative Quotations from William Faulkner (1897-1962) born Sep 25 US novelist; He wrote about a microcosm of the post-Civil War deep South in The Sound

The end of wisdom is to dream high

enough to lose the dream in

the seeking of it.

Page 4: Creative Quotations from William Faulkner (1897-1962) born Sep 25 US novelist; He wrote about a microcosm of the post-Civil War deep South in The Sound

If a writer has

to rob his

mother, he will

not hesitate; the "Ode on a

Grecian Urn" is worth any

number of old ladies.

Page 5: Creative Quotations from William Faulkner (1897-1962) born Sep 25 US novelist; He wrote about a microcosm of the post-Civil War deep South in The Sound

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.

Page 6: Creative Quotations from William Faulkner (1897-1962) born Sep 25 US novelist; He wrote about a microcosm of the post-Civil War deep South in The Sound

People need trouble -- a

little

frustration to sharpen

the spirit on, toughen it.

Page 7: Creative Quotations from William Faulkner (1897-1962) born Sep 25 US novelist; He wrote about a microcosm of the post-Civil War deep South in The Sound

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Page 8: Creative Quotations from William Faulkner (1897-1962) born Sep 25 US novelist; He wrote about a microcosm of the post-Civil War deep South in The Sound

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