William Faulkner Quotes About Pride

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  • That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.

    William Faulkner (1954). “The Best of Faulkner”
  • Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.

    William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”
  • He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

    William Faulkner (1954). “The Best of Faulkner”
  • The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

    Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950
  • Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.

    "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.
  • The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. 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.

    In Paris Review Spring 1956, p. 30
  • It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

    "The Sound And The Fury".
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