“and i temporary and he was the saddest word of all there is nothing else in the world its not despair until… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina" when asked the three best novels of all time.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“That’s what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels;… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“And so I told myself to take that one. Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“All the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“In my time I have seen truth that was anything under the sun but just, and I have seen justice using tools… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs… — 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
“i give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciating-ly apt that you will use it to gain the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“and the very old men--some in their brushed Confederate uniforms--on the porch and the lawn, talking of Miss Emily as if she… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“And that wasn't the first time it ever occurred to me that this world ain't run like it ought to be run… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“From time to time he would feel that acute surge go over him, like his blood was too hot all of a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“For the Lord aimed for him to do and not to spend too much time thinking, because his brain it's like a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“When they get done sending you to Parchman you'll have plenty of time between working cotton and corn you aint going to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“it was as if he had swung outward at the end of a grape vine, over a ravine, and at the top… — 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 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
