By sublimating the actual into the apocryphal I would have complete liberty to use whatever talent I might have to its absolute top. It opened up a gold mine of other people, so I created a cosmos of my own.
Today he is regarded as an important interpreter of the universal theme of "the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself."
Sometimes difficult to read, Faulkner experimented in the use of stream-of-consciousness technique and in the dislocation of narrative time.
my work is a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit. To create out of the material of the human spirit something which did not exist before.
The old universal truths, lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed: love and honor and pity and pride, and compassion and sacrifice.
He writes not of love, but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope.
The poets' voice need not merely be the recall of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
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通过将现实升华为虚构，我将完全自由地运用我可能拥有的任何才能，达到它的绝对顶峰。它打开了别人的金矿，所以我创造了自己的宇宙。
今天，他被认为是“人类内心矛盾”这一普遍主题的重要阐释者。
福克纳对意识流手法的运用和对叙事时间的错位进行了尝试，有时难以读懂。
我的工作是一生的工作，在人类精神的痛苦和汗水。从人类精神的物质中创造出以前不存在的东西。
没有这些古老而普遍的真理，任何故事都是短暂的，注定要失败的:爱、荣誉、怜悯、骄傲、同情和牺牲。
他写的不是爱情，而是情欲，写的是没有人会失去任何有价值的东西的失败，写的是没有希望的胜利。
诗人的声音不应只是人类的回忆，而应是使人类永存并获得胜利的支柱和栋梁。
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