More from William Faulkner

  1. My mother is a fish.
  2. So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only tru…
  3. I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind-and …
  4. Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.
  5. Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until …
  6. All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
  7. He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a sha…
  8. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

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