now i can get them teeth
When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would think with each blow of the switch: Now you are aware of me! Now I am something in y...
We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.
Stars were golden unicorns neighing unheard through blue meadows.
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.
Who gathers the withered rose?
Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
It 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...
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi
Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
She carried her head high enough - even when we believed that she was fallen. It was as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson; as if it had wanted that tou...
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
No man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.