And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.
William FaulknerThe poets are wrong of course [โฆ] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.
William FaulknerMemory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
William FaulknerI never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I'm going to give her. That's the only way to manage them. Always keep them guessing. If you cant think of any other way to surprise them, give them a bust in the jaw.
William Faulkner. . .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 Faulkner