William Faulkner Quotes

“he was not old enough to talk and say nothing at the same time.”

― William Faulkner, Light in August

topic:youth experience talking

“It's a comfortable thing, music is.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:music comfort

“It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that...”

― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

topic:success

“when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?”

― William Faulkner, Light in August

topic:hate

“Only her eyes seem to move. It's like they touch us, not with sight or sense, but like the stream from a hose touches you, the stream at the instant of impact as dissociated from the nozzle as though it had never been there.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:eyes sight

“Sometimes I lose faith in human nature for a time; I am assailed by doubt.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:doubt

“It is any man's privilege to destroy himself, so long as he does not injure anyone else, so long as he lives to and of himself”

― William Faulkner, Light in August

topic:independence

“It was as though, so long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice, since all people are cowards and naturally prefer any kind of treachery because it has a...”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:cowardice

“The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightning.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:sun

“I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.”

― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

topic:hell

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