A gentleman can live through anything. William Faulkner More Quotes by William Faulkner More Quotes From William Faulkner Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature. William Faulkner statespuritynegative I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period. William Faulkner capsperiodstrying So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream. William Faulkner imaginationdreammen People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon. William Faulkner evokedevilpeople Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride. William Faulkner pridehonorway True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth. William Faulkner poetryearthheaven Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world. William Faulkner passionpurityworld Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon. William Faulkner desirelittleslove It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular friend like we used to think of Grandfather's desk not to touch it not even to talk loud in the room where it was. William Faulkner mendeaththinking To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone. William Faulkner childhoodmenlong Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that makes a crop every so often and usually right they have an affinity for evil for supplying whatever the evil lacks in itself for drawing it about them instinctively as you do bed-clothing in slumber fertilizing the mind for it until the evil has served its purpose whether it ever existed or no. William Faulkner womendrawingpeople Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it. William Faulkner crazymenthinking Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race. William Faulkner racecrossesmen People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. William Faulkner frustrationpeopleneeds When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not be old enough to desire the fruits of it...his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it... William Faulkner ignorancemeanchildren Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August] William Faulkner lightmemoriesbelieve We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off. William Faulkner moneylittlesmight Did you ever have a sister? did you? William Faulkner She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do. William Faulkner people I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are. William Faulkner where-you-arehellcare
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