Best William Faulkner Thoughts
- The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely… Bed
- War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war… Body
- He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond. Behind
- I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue... Attributing
- Wonder. Go on and wonder. Go
- a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble… Afraid
- Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would… Advocacy
- You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith. Approach
- I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as an essayist does,… Alert
- I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it. Funny
- He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word… Any
- It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow. All
- Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an… Absorb
- History is not was, it is. Funny
- So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice... Abetting
- ...if there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above… All
- ...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget… All
- I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he… All
- the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the… Agony
- We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid. Afraid
- Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come… Clicked
- A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. Afraid
- A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the… Any
- Who gathers the withered rose? Funny
- Caddy smelled like trees. Caddy
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