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The somebody you was young with and you growed old in her and she growed old in you, seeing the old coming in and it was one somebody you could hear say it don't matter and know it was the truth outen the hard world ad all a man's grief and trials.
— William Faulkner
Any live man is better than any dead man.
— William Faulkner
And you came home? To die. Yes. To die? Yes. To die.
— William Faulkner
Show me the man what aint going to die, bless Jesus.
— William Faulkner
And so I told myself to take that one. Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
— William Faulkner
I've seed de first en de last, Dilsey said. I seed de beginnin, en now I sees de endin.
— William Faulkner
Addie: My father said that the reason for living is getting ready to stay dead.
— William Faulkner
YaÅŸayan herhangi bir insan herhangi ölü bir insandan iyidir ama yaÅŸayan ya da ölü hiçbir insan baÅŸka bir yaÅŸayan ya da ölü insandan çok daha iyi deÄŸildir.
— William Faulkner
We can invest trifles with a tragic profundity, which is the world.
— William Faulkner
His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
— William Golding
But nobody else understands about the fire. If someone threw you a rope when you were drowning. If a doctor said take this because if you don't take you'll die - you would, wouldn't you?
— William Golding
What is like chemistry? Well. Life. It's an outrageous farce, Oliver, with an incompetent producer...
— William Golding