William Faulkner Quotes
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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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It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.
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Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.
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Like 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.
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I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.
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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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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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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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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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My, my. A body does get around.
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We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
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How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
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You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
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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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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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I listen to the voices.
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Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall - Kilroy was here - that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.
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You men,' she says. 'You durn men.
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Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.
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There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.