William FaulknerMemory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]371Hope
William FaulknerCaddy smelled like trees. ✨ William Faulkner (2016). The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions), p.321, W. W. Norton & Company361Humor
William FaulknerEver since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too. ✨ William Faulkner (2011). FAULKNER READER, p.92, Modern Library372Reading
William FaulknerPeople to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too. ✨ William Faulkner (1964). As I Lay Dying, GoodBook Classics373DeathHumanityReading
William FaulknerKnowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets. ✨ William Faulkner (1967). Light in August, Random House Inc351Life
William FaulknerFacts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.341Truth
William FaulknerLove doesn't die; the men and women do.374DeathLove
William FaulknerThe past is never dead. It's not even past. ✨ Requiem for a Nun act 1 (1951)363DeathTime
William FaulknerThe writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies. ✨ Quo… ▶374Death
William FaulknerCivilization begins with distillation352Humanity
William FaulknerYes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exac… ▶364LoveReading
William FaulknerHe had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right t… ▶364HumanityLoveTime
William FaulknerWar is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war. ✨ William Faulkner (2011). A Fable, p.80, V… ▶375Time
William FaulknerThat's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today ✨ William … ▶364HumanityReadingSadness
William FaulknerOnly the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while. ✨ William Faulkner, Noel Polk (1987). Absalom, Absalom!, typescript s… ▶364Reflection
William FaulknerThe artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.343Reading
William FaulknerClocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. ✨ William Faulkner (2011). FAULKNER R… ▶365DeathLifeReading
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 Faulkner (2011). Essays, Spee… ▶354Life
William FaulknerGettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there. ✨ William Faulkner (1951). Absalom, Absalom!365Love
William FaulknerNo one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human be… ▶332HumanityThought
William FaulknerBecause 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 w… ▶311LoveReadingThought
William FaulknerDon Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible. ✨ William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12. Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.333Reading
William FaulknerPeople need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.366Humanity
William FaulknerYou don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.355Love
William FaulknerIt feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.355Sadness
William FaulknerJust when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another? ✨ William Faulkner (1985). Novels, 1930-1935, Library of America311Reading
William FaulknerSome days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar. ✨ William Faulkner (2011). FAULKNER RE… ▶311ReadingSadness
William FaulknerThe reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true. ✨ William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). William Faulkner, … ▶355Truth
William FaulknerWe cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but beca… ▶301Reflection
William FaulknerYou could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don't know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and i… ▶334Death
