What sets a man writhing sleepless in bed at night is not having injured his fellow so much as having been wrong; the mere injury he can efface by destroying the victim and the witness but the mistake is his and that is one of his cats which he always prefers to choke to death with butter.
William FaulknerTag: mistake
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.
William FaulknerTag: hope
A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.
William FaulknerWe shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.
William FaulknerTag: kill commandment
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
William FaulknerTag: courage hope risk determination
the two girls emanated an incorrigible idle inertia.
William FaulknerTo live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
William FaulknerYounger citizens of the town do not know him at all save as a tall, apparently strong and healthy man who loafs in a brooding, saturnine fashion wherever he will be allowed, never exactly accepted by any group.
William FaulknerA mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
William Faulkner...and you don t have to sleep alone you don t even have to sleep at all and so all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say Thank God for nothing.
William FaulknerTag: the-unvanquished
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