More from William Faulkner

  1. Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
  2. Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that y…
  3. The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writin…
  4. I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of d…
  5. The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where the…
  6. When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, W…
  7. A gentleman can live through anything.
  8. Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.

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