Quotes by

William Faulkner

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next. – William Faulkner

Maybe it was because like not only finds like; it cant even escape from being found by its like. Even when its just like in one thing, because even them two with the same like was different. – William Faulkner

When my horse is running good, I dont stop to give him sugar. – William Faulkner

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps its the risk, the gamble. In any event its a thing I need. – William Faulkner

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. – William Faulkner

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. – William Faulkner

The past is never dead, it is not even past. – William Faulkner

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. – William Faulkner

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors. – William Faulkner

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. – William Faulkner

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. – William Faulkner

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That’s how he finds that he can bear anything. – William Faulkner

To 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 Faulkner