No one individual can tell the truth. William Faulkner More Quotes by William Faulkner More Quotes From William Faulkner ...and you don't even have to sleep alone, you don't even have to sleep at all; and so, all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say, 'Thank God for nothing.' William Faulkner thank-god dog sleep We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't. William Faulkner maybe-next-time next-time next Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves. William Faulkner evil men believe Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love? William Faulkner bones shapes flesh All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. William Faulkner possible-and-impossible perfection dream It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible William Faulkner be-young terrible young 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. William Faulkner seventeen surrender The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten. William Faulkner lost-love heartbreak forever I will never lie again. William Faulkner never-lie lying ...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life. William Faulkner men book thinking And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless. William Faulkner helping men thinking He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and compassion and sacrifice. See Poets & Writers William Faulkner sacrifice teaching heart You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is. William Faulkner real history past I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact. William Faulkner taken together thinking When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again. William Faulkner done men long Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible. William Faulkner years A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning. William Faulkner sorrow life thinking Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while. William Faulkner dear-god let-me littles I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town. William Faulkner bereavement reality moving In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior. William Faulkner artist europe america
