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
liars lying men
They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
heaven poetry earth
True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.
feminine cringe ifs
Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
loneliness
I am not one of those women who can stand things.
spite incapable
She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
marriage long rooms
Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
materials i-can ifs
I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.
time doe clock
Only when the clock stops does time come to life
telling-the-truth individual
No one individual can tell the truth.
lost-love ifs knows
You 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 if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
young terrible be-young
It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible
ears sound wanted
We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
best-friend fun holiday
Well, Bud," he said, looking at me, "I'll be damned if you don't go to a lot of trouble to have your fun. Kidnapping, then fighting. What do you do on your holidays? Burn houses?
reason knows
The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.