Sometimes I could put myself to sleep saying that over and over until after the honeysuckle got all mixed up in it the whole thing came to symbolize night and unrest I seemed to be lying neither aslee...
She wouldn't say what we both knew. 'The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true: is that it? But you know it is true now. I can almost tell you the...
Memory believes before knowing remembers.
It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.
It does not take long. Soon the fine galloping language, the gutless swooning full of sapless trees and dehydrated lusts begins to swim smooth and swift and peaceful. It is better than praying without...
If it could just be a hell beyond that: the clean flame the two of us more than dead. Then you will have only me then only me then the two of us amid the pointing and the horror beyond the clean flame...
I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie
I dont know what I am. I dont know if I am or not.
I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.
He turned the pages in steady progression, though now and then he would seem to linger upon one page, one line, perhaps one word. He would not look up then. He would not move, apparently arrested and...
He is the greatest artist the South has produced.… Indeed, through his many novels and short stories, Faulkner fights out the moral problem which was repressed after the nineteenth century [yet] for a...
Before us the thick dark current runs. It talks up to us in a murmur become ceaseless and myriad, the yellow surface dimpled monstrously into fading swirls travelling along the surface for an instant,...
Bad health is the primary reason for all life. Created by disease, within putrefaction, into decay
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people.
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."(on Ernest Hemingway
It takes an awful lot of character to quit anything when you are losing,
Truth is one. It doesn't change. It covers all things which touch the heart - honor and pride and pity and justice and courage and love.
They say love dies between two people. That’s wrong. It doesn’t die. It just leaves you, goes away, if you aren’t good enough, worthy enough. It doesn’t die; you’re the the one that dies. It’s like th...
They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought flowers with the crayon face of her father musing profoundly above the bier and the ladies...
They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires...