891 Quotes by William Faulkner

é difícil acreditar que um amor ou uma dor é uma debênture comprada sem intenção e que vence querendo ou não e é recolhida sem aviso prévio para ser substituída pelo título que os deuses resolverem emitir no momento não você só vai fazer isso quando acreditar que nem mesmo ela era merecedora do desespero talvez

I'd have to listen to somebody - artist or shoe clerk. And the artist is more entertaining because he knows less about what he is trying to do.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi

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

I am not religious, I reckon. But peace is in my heart: I know it is.

the listening part is afraid that there may not be time to say it". Dewey Dell - As I Lay Dying.

El lenguaje es como la morfina.

She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.