01c. 1929 ADIt was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I was a child no longer now; innocence and childhood were forever lost, forever gone from me.William Faulkner / quote ↗
02c. 1929 ADNo one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by the word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior, by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol—cross or crescent or whatever—that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race. Its various allegories are the charts against which he measures himself and learns to know what he is. It cannot teach man to be good as the textbook teaches him mathematics. It shows him how to discover himself, evolve for himself a moral code and standard within his capacities and aspirations, by giving him a matchless example of suffering and sacrifice and the promise of hope.William Faulkner / quote ↗
04c. 1929 ADAnd so sometimes I would think how the devil had conquered God.William Faulkner / quote ↗
05c. 1929 ADBut something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.William Faulkner / quote ↗
06c. 1929 ADI only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, MississippiWilliam Faulkner / quote ↗
08c. 1929 ADOnly fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot.William Faulkner / quote ↗
09c. 1929 ADAnd when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or women. He aint going to have time to quit.William Faulkner / quote ↗
10c. 1929 ADBecause you know that's all I needs, all I wants, is for you to try to run, to turn your back on me and run. I know you aint going to. Because all you got to beat is me. I got to beat old Carothers. Get your pistol.""No," the other said. "Go home. Get out of here. Tonight I will come to your house-----""After this?" Lucas said. "Me and you, in the same country, breathing the same air even? No matter what you could say, what you could even prove so I would have to believe it, after this? Get your pistol.William Faulkner / quote ↗
11c. 1929 ADIt'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 / quote ↗
12c. 1929 ADSome things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them.William Faulkner / quote ↗
14c. 1929 ADHe has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."(on Ernest HemingwayWilliam Faulkner / quote ↗
15c. 1929 ADThe scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.William Faulkner / quote ↗
16c. 1929 ADThe 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. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move.William Faulkner / quote ↗
17c. 1929 ADAnd I reckon them that are good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad.William Faulkner / quote ↗
18c. 1929 ADAb figured that the chance of his recognising it would be about the same as a burglar recognising a dollar watch that happened to get caught for a minute on his vest button five years agoWilliam Faulkner / quote ↗
19c. 1929 ADThe cotton was open and spilling into the fields; the very air smelled of it. In field after field as he passed along the pickers, arrested in stooping attitudes, seemed fixed amid the constant surf of bursting bolls like piles in surf, the long, partly-filled sacks streaming away behind them like rigid frozen flags. The air was hot, vivid and breathless--a final fierce concentration of the doomed and dying summer.William Faulkner / quote ↗
20c. 1929 ADYou intend to kiss me and yet you are going to all this damn trouble about it.William Faulkner / quote ↗
22c. 1929 ADHere I am I am tired I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggsWilliam Faulkner / quote ↗
23c. 1929 ADI lied," I said. ..."I know it," he said."Then do something about it. Do anything, just so it's something.""I cant," he said."There aint anything to do? Not anything?""I didn't say that," Grandfather said. "I said I couldn't. You can.""What?" I said. "How can I forget it? Tell me how to.""You cant," he said. "Nothing is ever forgotten. Nothing is ever lost. It's too valuable.""Then what can I do?""Live with it," Grandfather said."Live with it? You mean, forever? For the rest of my life? Not ever to get rid of it? Never? I cant. Dont you see that I cant?""Yes you can," he said. "You will. A gentleman always does. A gentleman can live through anything. He faces anything. A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences, even when he did not himself instigate them but only acquiesced to them, didn't say No though he knew he should.William Faulkner / quote ↗
24c. 1929 ADToo much happens ... Man performs engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.William Faulkner / quote ↗
