The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
WILLIAM FAULKNERArtists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLike a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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 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 FAULKNERIt’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBelieve that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
WILLIAM FAULKNERAn artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTalk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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 FAULKNERWonder. Go on and wonder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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 FAULKNERDon’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNER