And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAnd sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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 aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWho gathers the withered rose?
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf a story is in you, it has to come out.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHistory is not was, it is.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWar and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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 FAULKNERThe most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGiven the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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 FAULKNERI say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
WILLIAM FAULKNER