People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard… — 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
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie. — 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
It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that… — 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
No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone. — 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
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach… — 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
any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return… — 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
