The past is never dead, it is not even past. – 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
The past is never dead, it is not even past. – 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
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
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. – William Faulkner
People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy. – Gary Saul Morson, The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel, 2012