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“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.”

William Faulkner

“Love doesn't die; the men and women do.”

William Faulkner book If I Forget Thee

Source: The Wild Palms

“Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”

William Faulkner book If I Forget Thee

Variant: Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief
Source: The Wild Palms

“He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.”

William Faulkner

“Caddy smelled like trees.”

William Faulkner book The Sound and the Fury

Source: The Sound and the Fury

“A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.”

William Faulkner

(Ch. 6) "Old Man"; p. 160
The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem] (1939)

“It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible”

William Faulkner

“She was the captain of her soul”

William Faulkner book Light in August

Source: Light in August

“History is not was, it is.”

William Faulkner

“I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.”

William Faulkner book Light in August

Source: Light in August

“I am not one of those women who can stand things.”

William Faulkner book The Sound and the Fury

Source: The Sound and the Fury

“And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.”

William Faulkner book Light in August

Source: Light in August

“It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.”

William Faulkner book The Sound and the Fury

Source: The Sound and the Fury

“War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.”

William Faulkner book A Fable

Source: A Fable

“To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.”

William Faulkner

“I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue…”

William Faulkner book The Sound and the Fury

Source: The Sound and the Fury