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 problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy. His wife and children may be shoeless; someone… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself — 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
No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“battles lost not alone because of superior numbers and failing ammunition and stores, but because of generals who should not have been… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe… — 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
