Listen here, Mr. Shiftlet, she said, sliding forward in her chair, you'd be getting a permanent house and a deep well and the most innocent girl in the world. You don't need no money. Lemme tell you s...
Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead. The Misfit continued, and He shouldn’t have done it. He thrown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it’s nothing for you to do but thr...
For nearly two centuries the popular spirit of each succeeding generation has tended more and more to the view that the mysteries of life will eventually fall before the mind of man. Many modern novel...
As was usual with him, he began with the least important thing and worked around and in toward the center where the meaning was.
Across the river there was a low red and gold grove of sassafras with hills of dark blue trees behind it and an occasional pine jutting over the skyline. Behind, in the distance, the city rose like a...
The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
No one can be an atheist who does not know all things. Only God is an atheist. The devil is the greatest believer and he has his reasons.
With the energy he had conserved yesterday letting her dress him, he had written a note and pinned it in his pocket. IF FOUND DEAD SHIP EXPRESS COLLECT TO COLEMAN PARRUM, CORINTH, GEORGIA. Under this...
Two people can remain in love-- a phrase made practically useless by stinking romanticism--only if their common desire for each other unites in a greater desire for God.
To his mind, an opportunity to insult a successful ape cam from the hand of Providence.
Parker sat for a long time on the ground in the alley behind the pool hall, examining his soul. He saw it as a spider web of facts and lies that was not at all important to him but which appeared to b...
If the writer believes that our life is and will remain essentially mysterious, if he looks upon us as beings existing in a created order to whose laws we freely respond, then what he sees on the surf...
I hope you understand that it is not the tooth of the saber-toothed tiger I want, it is the . I don't care if it's a old toothless tiger or not, just so it's alive. I intend to start a zoo.
I do not know You God because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with his bare will. He kept himself upright on a very narrow line between madness and empti...
Francis Marion Tarwater’s uncle had been dead for only half a day when the boy got too drunk to finish digging his grave and a Negro named Buford Munson, who had come to get a jug filled, had to finis...
Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.
Any criticism at all which depresses you to the extent that you feel you cannot ever write anything worth anything is from the Devil and to subject yourself to it is for you an occasion of sin. In you...
A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.