Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSomeone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWomen know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTo live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRead, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSuccess is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
WILLIAM FAULKNERThere is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
WILLIAM FAULKNERMen have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPeople need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo one individual can tell the truth.
WILLIAM FAULKNER