. . .in August in Mississippi thereโs a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly thereโs a foretaste of fall, itโs cool, thereโs a lambence, a soft, a luminous quality to the light, as though it came not from just today but from back in the old classic times. It might have fauns and satyrs and the gods and---from Greece, from Olympus in it somewhere. It lasts just for a day or two, then itโs gone. . .the title reminded me of that time, of a luminosity older than our Christian civilization.
William FaulknerHe made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the earth and to hold suzerainty over the earth and the animals on it in His name, not to hold for himself and his descendants inviolable title forever, generation after generation, to the oblongs and squares of the earth, but to hold the earth mutual and intact in the communal anonymity of brotherhood, and all the fee He asked was pity and humility and sufferance and endurance and the sweat of has face for bread.
William FaulknerIt's not when you realize that nothing can help you โ religion, pride, anything โ it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.
William Faulkner