Best 15 quotes in «faulkner quotes» category

Collecting statistics at camp Zachary Taylor after the armistice [WW1 1918], I found that out of two hundred and fifty men from Kentucky and Tennessee, ninety were completely illiterate, several were actual imbeciles, two had syphilitic rheumatism; and any number had married at childhood ages, from twelve - the youngest - to seventeen. They had married girls from nine - the youngest - to fourteen. So I am ready to believe that the Faulkner and Caldwell depictions of ingrown sections of the country are based upon actual conditions....

Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?" "Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.

El lenguaje es como la morfina.

Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry.

I guess maybe a talking man hasn't got the time to ever learn much about anything except words.

Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.

My father is a fish.

Not every artist has to make a living making art. Millions of people who play guitar would do well to keep their day jobs. Plenty of people make incredible art "on the side". William Faulkner wasn't any less of an artist for writing As I lay Dying on the back of a wheelbarrow during breaks in his job shoveling coal for the electric company.

Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why should not their religion drive them to crucifixion of themselves and one another? he thinks.

Quién pagaría una buena cantidad por una virginidad que no puede violar más tarde, aunque solo fuera para asegurarse de que era auténtica?

That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at.

We can invest trifles with a tragic profundity, which is the world.

When folks wants a fellow, it's best to wait till they sends for him, I've found.

I think the best way I can put it,” Tom summarized, “was what I was once told that a Confederate prisoner said to his Union captor. The Yank said: ‘Why do you fight us so hard, Reb?’, and his prisoner replied: ‘Because you are here, Yank’.

Sometimes I think aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way.