William Faulkner: Trending quotes (page 6)

“My, my. A body does get around.”

“If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time”

“I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.”

“A dream is not a very safe thing to be near… I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.”

“Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.”

“They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.”

“Civilization begins with distillation”

“She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.”

“She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.”

“any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man”

“I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie”

“I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately I am inspired at 9 o'clock every morning.”

“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.”

“To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.”

“When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.”

“I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!”

“I am older at twenty than a lot of people who have died.”

“Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.”

“Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”