You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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 FAULKNERA man is the sum of his misfortunes.
WILLIAM FAULKNERMen have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPerhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
WILLIAM FAULKNERUnless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWomen know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYour illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
WILLIAM FAULKNEROnly when the clock stops does time come to life
WILLIAM FAULKNERA man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
WILLIAM FAULKNER