891 Quotes by William Faulkner

battles lost not alone because of superior numbers and failing ammunition and stores, but because of generals who should not have been generals, who were generals not through training in contemporary methods or aptitude for learning them, but by the divine right to say 'Go there' conferred upon them by an absolute caste system

He turned into the road at that slow and ponderous gallop, the two of them, man and beast, leaning a little stiffly forward as though in some juggernautish simulation of terrific speed though the actual speed itself was absent, as if in that cold and implacable and undeviating conviction of both omnipotence and clairvoyance of which they both partook known destination and speed were not necessary.

Dalton Ames. Dalton Ames. Dalton Shirts. I thought all the time they were khaki, army issue khaki, until I saw they were of heavy Chinese silk or finest flannel because they made his face so brown his eyes so blue. Dalton Ames. It just missed gentility. Theatrical fixture. Just papier-mache, then touch. Oh. Asbestos. Not quite bronze.

the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.

Esto es lo que quieren significar con el seno del tiempo: la agonía y la desesperanza de los huesos que se extienden, la dura faja en que dan a luz las violadas entrañas de los conocimientos.

Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.

...no man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.

Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.

It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.