“sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt.” — 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… — 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
“...which was no abode of the dead because there was no death, not Lion and not Sam: not held fast in earth… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“ It's because she wants it told he thought so that people whom she will never see and whose names she will… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“But you cant be alive forever, and you always wear out life long before you have exhausted the possibilities of living. And… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I said You don't know what worry is. I don't know what it is. I don't know whether I am worrying or… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and… — 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
He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“It was as if the boy had already divined what his senses and intellect had not encompassed yet: that doomed wilderness whose… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“... in an even wilder part of the river's jungle of cane and gum and pin oak, there is an Indian mound.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by the word. It is every individual's individual code of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“At first it had been a torrent; now it was a tide, with a flow and ebb. During its flood she could… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“There were railroads in the wilderness now; people who used to go overland by carriage or horseback to the River landings for… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“And George Farr had the town, the earth, the world to himself and his sorrow. Music came faint as a troubling rumor… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Women are never virgins. Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“So never be afraid, never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion; against injustice, lying and greed.… — 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
