It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and… — 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
A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
God created man and He created the world for him to live in and I reckon He created the kind of world… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything… — 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
“Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to… — 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
