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
past
The past is never forgotten; it's never even past
drama taken past
The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
sweet memories past
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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.
real past history
You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.
wall powerful past
We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.
past over-it
The past isn't over. It isn't even past.
past substitutes something-better
Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.
wisdom past heredity-and-environment
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
best good landlord mornings time
Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.
help
Well, it's like this. I ain't got to but I can't help it.
easiest express means music pure since words
I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express . . . but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure must would have done better.
hundred miles
Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.
thank-you thanksgiving gratitude
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.