William Faulkner Quotes
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I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.
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It's because I'm alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone.
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She wouldn't say what we both knew. 'The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true: is that it? But you know it is true now. I can almost tell you the day when you knew it is true. Why won't you say it, even to yourself?' She will not say it.
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Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering, which enemies as well as lovers know because it makes them both:---touch and touch of that which is the citadel of the central I-Am's private own: not spirit, soul; the liquorish and ungirdled mind is anyone's to take in any any darkened hallway of this earthly tenement. But let flesh touch with flesh, and watch the fall of all the eggshell shibboleth of caste and color too.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
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I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.
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It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.
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Did you ever have a sister? did you?
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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do -after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.
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Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.
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The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
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Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
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This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
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In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.
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When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.
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Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.
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Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.
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Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.