Quote #52
I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
More from William Faulkner
- Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
- I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
- Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
- I'm trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.
- Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be …
- Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.
- A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of …
- Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.