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
help
Well, it's like this. I ain't got to but I can't help it.
past simple men
A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.
trying periods caps
I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.
strong children men
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.
wind bird tilt
A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries, where they swung in raucous tilt and recover, screaming into the wind that ripped their harsh cries onward and away like scraps of paper or of cloth in turn.
pain hangover thinking
I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling rotten, with a hangover, or with-with actual pain, and-and if he gets to work, the first thing he knows, he don't remember that pain, that hangover-he's too busy.
unique gadgets useless
It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.
running horse writing
When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
flesh shapes bones
Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?
dream possible-and-impossible perfection
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
responsibility gentleman bears
A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
truth honesty lying
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
freedom 4th-of-july patriotic
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
depression pain numbness
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.