William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulknerwas an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays, and screenplays. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 September 1897
CityNew Albany, MS
rose withered
Who gathers the withered rose?
tree
Caddy smelled like trees.
moving shadow looks
I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.
virtue idleness
Idleness breeds our better virtues.
lying thinking should-have
…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should have affirmed thinking I was I was not who was not was not who.
next maybe-next-time next-time
We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.
mexico memphis tennessee
Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico
victory battle fool
No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
understanding gettysburg born
Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.
sweet memories past
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.
inspirational life motivational
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
writing famous-writers writers-reading
Read, read read. Read everything.
martini bigger feels
When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.
dream possible-and-impossible perfection
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.