Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#faulkner

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #faulkner




Civilization begins with distillation ↗


— William Faulkner


#clever #faulkner #funny #funny

Yes. Because they were human men. They were trying to write down the heart's truth out of the heart's driving complexity, for all the complex and troubled hearts which would beat after them. ↗


— William Faulkner "The Bear"


#the-bear #william-faulkner #men

Because 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


#dramatic-moment #go-down-moses #william-faulkner #home

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ↗


— William Faulkner


#inspirational #motivational #inspirational

But you cant be alive forever, and you always wear out life long before you have exhausted the possibilities of living. And all that must be somewhere; all that could not have been invented and created just to be thrown away. And the earth is shallow; there is not a great deal of it before you come to the rock. And the earth dont want to just keep things, hoard them; it wants to use them again. ↗


— William Faulkner


#william-faulkner #life

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep. ↗


— Cliff Fadiman


#creep #faulkner #flesh #interested #making

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now. ↗


— Ken Burns


#before #faulkner #history #i #just

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


— William Faulkner


#south #writing #business

The displacement of water is equal to the something of something. ↗


— William Faulkner


#prose #the-sound-and-the-fury #william-faulkner #equality

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework. ↗


— E. L. Doctorow


#dwell #faulkner #fiction #framework #geography






back to top