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
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!
regret father littles
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.
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.
heartbreak lost-love forever
The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
soul captains
She was the captain of her soul
doe body
My, my. A body does get around.
loneliness opportunity silence
He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the same as another to him. But in none of them could he be quiet. But the street ran on in its moods and phases, always empty: he might have seen himself as in numberless avatars, in silence, doomed with motion, driven by the courage of flagged and spurred despair; by the despair of courage whose opportunities had to be flagged and spurred.
tree
Caddy smelled like trees.
virtue idleness
Idleness breeds our better virtues.
mexico memphis tennessee
Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico
understanding gettysburg born
Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.