“A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. but it’s the dead folks that do him the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I don’t like the climate, the people, their way of life. Nothing ever happens and then one morning you wake up and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Bad health is the primary reason for all life. Created by disease, within putrefaction, into decay” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness--people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life... and hold it fixed so that 100 years later, when… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, but then he was choosing… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“He was as calm as a god who has seen both life and death, and seen nothing of particular importance in either… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“All right. It is so, then. But not to me. Not in my life and my love.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I reckon I'll be at the beck and call of folks with money all my life, but thank God I won't ever… — 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
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
“It was hot; heat quivered up from the asphalt, giving to the familiar buildings about the square a nimbus quality, a quality… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I reckon if there’s ere a man or woman anywhere that He could turn it all over to and go away with… — 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
