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
“[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
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
Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon. — 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
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
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
There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain… — 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
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us. — 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
She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“There was no one for him to tell, talk to about it, about his fear and suspicion, He trusted no man nor… — 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
