...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another? — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It's the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself;… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent;… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The river itself is not a hundred yards across, and pa and Vernon and Vardaman and Dewey Dell are the only things in sight… — William Faulkner Copy Share
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it. — William Faulkner Copy Share
“Luster returned, wearing a stiff new straw hat with a colored band and carrying a cloth cap. The hat seemed to isolate Luster's skull,… — William Faulkner Copy Share
It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged… — William Faulkner Copy Share
“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on… — William Faulkner Copy Share
I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil, — William Faulkner Copy Share
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough. — William Faulkner Copy Share
“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice,… — William Faulkner Copy Share
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the… — William Faulkner Copy Share
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. — William Faulkner Copy Share
“What modren ideas?” pap said. “I didn’t know there was but one idea about work—until it is done, it ain’t done, and when it… — William Faulkner Copy Share
“It was only as he put his hand on the door that he became aware of complete silence beyond it, a silence which he… — William Faulkner Copy Share
“She has no mother because fatherblood hates with love and pride, but motherblood with hate loves and cohabits.” — William Faulkner Copy Share
“Byron listened quietly, thinking to himself how people everywhere are about the same, but that it did seem that in a small town, where… — William Faulkner Copy Share
“It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I… — William Faulkner Copy Share
