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“It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.”

William Faulkner book The Sound and the Fury

Source: The Sound and the Fury

“Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar…”

William Faulkner book The Sound and the Fury

Source: The Sound and the Fury

“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune”

William Faulkner book The Sound and the Fury

Source: The Sound and the Fury (1929)

“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.”

William Faulkner book As I Lay Dying

Source: As I Lay Dying (1930)

“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.”

William Faulkner

“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”

William Faulkner

“A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….”

William Faulkner

“The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”

William Faulkner

“If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.”

William Faulkner book Absalom, Absalom!

Source: Absalom, Absalom!

“There is no was.”

William Faulkner