It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
...only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while... — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always. — 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
When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in… — 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
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
I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
They say love dies between two people. That’s wrong. It doesn’t die. It just leaves you, goes away, if you aren’t good… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men… — 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
People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. — 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
