The first harsh, sparse, swift drops rush through the leaves and across the ground in a long sigh, as though of relief from intolerable suspense.
William FaulknerShe wasn’t too big, heroic, what they call Junoesque. It was that there was just too much of what she was for any one human female package to contain, and hold: too much of white, too much of female, too much of maybe just glory, I don’t know: so that at first sight of her you felt a kind of shock of gratitude just for being alive and being male at the same instance with her in space and time, and then in the next second and forever after a kind of despair because you knew there would never be enough of any one male to match and hold and deserve her; grief forever after because forever after nothing less would ever do.
William FaulknerYou intend to kiss me and yet you are going to all this damn trouble about it.
William FaulknerMots clés kissing soldier-s-pay
The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
William FaulknerMots clés words seduction soldier-s-pay
The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
William FaulknerMots clés love heartbreak soldier-s-pay
I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
William FaulknerWhen something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.
William Faulkner...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
William FaulknerAnd when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.
William FaulknerFor the Lord aimed for him to do and not to spend too much time thinking, because his brain it's like a piece of machinery: it won't stand a whole lot of racking. It's best when it all runs along the same, doing the day's work and not no one part used no more than needful.
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