891 Quotes by William Faulkner

He got off on Lincoln and slavery and dared any man there to deny that Lincoln and the negro and Moses and the children of Israel were the same, and that the Red Sea was just the blood that had to be spilled in order that the black race might cross into the Promised Land.

Victory without God is mockery and delusion, but...defeat with God is not defeat.

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.

He began to breathe deep. He could feel himself breathing deep, as if each time his insides were afraid that next breath they would not be able to give far enough and that something terrible would happen, and that all the time he could look down at himself breathing, at his chest, and see no movement at all, like when dynamite first begins, gathers itself for the now Now NOW, the shape of the outside of the stick does not change

He sho a preacher, mon! He didn't look like much at first, but hush!

The very fact that he could and did see no paradox in the fact that he took an active part in a partisan war and on the very side whose principles opposed to his own, was proof enough that he was two separate and complete people, one of whom dwelled by serene rules in a world where reality did not exist.

You men,' she says. 'You durn men.

And you came home?To die. Yes.To die?Yes. To die.