any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man
William FaulknerShe has no mother because fatherblood hates with love and pride, but motherblood with hate loves and cohabits.
William FaulknerRead, read, read.
William Faulkner...he remembered his uncle saying once how little vocabulary man really needed to get comfortably and even efficiently through his life, how not only in the individual but within his whole type and race and kind a few simple cliches served his few simple passions and needs and lusts.
William FaulknerStichwörter: cliches vocabulary
...no man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.
William FaulknerSome things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them.
William FaulknerIt begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.
William FaulknerStichwörter: writing characters
Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.
William FaulknerShe was the captain of her soul
William FaulknerIt is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.
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