Quotes from William Faulkner
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
— William Faulkner
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
— William Faulkner
Po jakim? czasie cz?owiek przyzwyczaja si?, zapomina i nawet nie czuje, ?e zimno, bo zapomnia?, co to jest ciep?o.
— William Faulkner
...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
— William Faulkner
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
— William Faulkner
The Lord can see into the heart. If it is His will that some folks has different ideas of honesty from other folks, it is not my place to question His decree. "I reckon
— William Faulkner
Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.
— William Faulkner
You're not being tried by common sense," Horace said. "You're being tried by a jury.
— William Faulkner
And you came home? To die. Yes. To die? Yes. To die.
— William Faulkner
He never denied it. He never did anything. He never acted like either a nigger or a white man. That was it. That was what made the folks so mad.
— William Faulkner
The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightning.
— William Faulkner
He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.
— William Faulkner