02c. 1929 ADIt's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.William Faulkner / quote ↗
03c. 1929 ADI believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of man's puny, inexhaustible, voice still talking! ...not simply because man alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because man has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion, sacrifice and endurance.William Faulkner / quote ↗
04c. 1929 ADIt is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.William Faulkner / quote ↗
05c. 1929 ADLife is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, but then he was choosing in his dream state. He was mad. He entered reality only when he was so busy trying to cope with people that he had no time to distinguish between good and evil. Since people exist only in life, they must devote their time simply to being alive. Life is motion, and motion is concerned with what makes man move—which is ambition, power, pleasure. What time a man can devote to morality, he must take by force from the motion of which he is a part. He is compelled to make choices between good and evil sooner or later, because moral conscience demands that from him in order that he can live with himself tomorrow. His moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.William Faulkner / quote ↗
06c. 1929 ADSome 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 / quote ↗
07c. 1929 ADWhat matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe.William Faulkner / quote ↗
08c. 1929 ADUnless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honestWilliam Faulkner / quote ↗
09c. 1929 ADQuentin had grown up with that; the mere names were interchangeable and almost myriad. His childhood was full of them; his very body was an empty hall echoing with sonorous defeated names; he was not a being, an entity, he was a commonwealth. He was a barracks filled with stubborn back-looking ghosts still recovering, even forty-three years afterward, from the fever which had cured the disease, waking from the fever without even knowing that it had been the fever itself which they had fought against and not the sickness, looking with stubborn recalcitrance backward beyond the fever and into the disease with actual regret, weak from the fever yet free of the disease and not even aware that the freedom was that of impotence.William Faulkner / quote ↗
10c. 1929 AD... a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.William Faulkner / quote ↗
11c. 1929 ADI mind how I said to you once that there is a price for being good the same as for being bad; a cost to pay. And it's the good men that cant deny the bill when it comes around. They cant deny it for the reason that there aint any way to make them pay it, like a honest man that gambles. The bad men can deny it; that's why dont anybody expect them to pay on sight or any other time. But the good cant. Maybe it takes longer to pay for being good than for being bad.William Faulkner / quote ↗
12c. 1929 ADYou know that if I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.William Faulkner / quote ↗
13c. 1929 ADHow often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.William Faulkner / quote ↗
14c. 1929 AD...women will show pride and honor about almost anything except love ...William Faulkner / quote ↗
15c. 1929 ADSo long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice...William Faulkner / quote ↗
16c. 1929 ADAnd sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.William Faulkner / quote ↗
18c. 1929 ADPleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why should not their religion drive them to crucifixion of themselves and one another? he thinks.William Faulkner / quote ↗
19c. 1929 ADCaddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.William Faulkner / quote ↗
20c. 1929 ADStars were golden unicorns neighing unheard through blue meadows.William Faulkner / quote ↗
22c. 1929 ADI 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!William Faulkner / quote ↗
23c. 1929 ADHe got off on Lincoln and slavery and dared any man there to deny that Lincoln and the negro and Moses and the children of Israel were the same, and that the Red Sea was just the blood that had to be spilled in order that the black race might cross into the Promised Land.William Faulkner / quote ↗
24c. 1929 ADListen: it’s got to be all honeymoon, always. Either heaven, or hell: no comfortable safe peaceful purgatory between for you and me to wait in until good behavior or forbearance or shame or repentance overtakes us.William Faulkner / quote ↗
