“...women will show pride and honor about almost anything except love ...” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love. — 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
“If you write something that you love beyond all reason, it is wrong and you should strike it out.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Perhaps they were right in putting love into books, . . . Perhaps it could not live anywhere else. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for… — 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
“Maybe you have to know anybody awful well to love them but when you have hated somebody for forty-three years you will… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you… — 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
“You are suffering from disappointment. But this will pass away. The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love… — 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
...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“He just thought quietly, 'So this is love. I see, I was wrong about it too', thinking as he had thought before… — 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
“Oh,” he said. “I see.” But he did not see, exactly, though he believed that he could have been wrong and that… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“[A writer] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love? — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“She has no mother because fatherblood hates with love and pride, but motherblood with hate loves and cohabits.” — 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
Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us. — 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
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