29 Quotes About Faulkner

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

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’.

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

William Faulkner said more asinine things than any other major American writer.

It used to be a gentleman was known by his books; nowadays he is known by the ones he has not returned.

My father is a fish.

Чтобы родить тебя, нужны двое, а чтобы умереть — один. Вот как кончится мир.

Amid the pointing and the horror, the clean flame.

Amid the pointing and the horror the clean flame.