History is not was, it is.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHistory is not was, it is.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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 FAULKNERI say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHow false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWomen know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERJust like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPeople need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBelieve that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSince man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER