Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTruth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFor every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
WILLIAM FAULKNERHistory is not was, it is.
WILLIAM FAULKNERShe was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHow false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLife is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPerhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
WILLIAM FAULKNER