To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end. — 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
Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
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
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning. — 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
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
If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of… — 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
