“When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don’t really know what they mean.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“There is a limit to what a child can accept, assimilate; not to what it can believe because a child can believe… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Burden … began to read to the child in Spanish from the book which he had brought with him from California, interspersing… — 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
It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The train swung around the curve, the engine puffing with short, heavy blasts, and they passed smoothly from sight that way, with… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The American really loves nothing but his automobile: not his wife his child nor his country nor even his bank-account first (in… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil, — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
