Quote

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.

William Faulkner

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
Author
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
New Albany
Mississippi
William Cuthbert Faulkner
William Falkner
William Cuthbert Falkner
Long
Deceit
Cowardice
Ran
Quiet
Along
Unawares
Maybe
Monotonous
Peace
Antiwar
War
Deceived

More quotes by William Faulkner

Image
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
William Faulkner
Image
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
William Faulkner
Image
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.
William Faulkner
Image
The past isn't over. It isn't even past.
William Faulkner
Image
I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.
William Faulkner
Image
The writer's only responsibility is to his art.
William Faulkner
Image
The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.
William Faulkner
Image
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner
Image
I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.
William Faulkner
Image
You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don't know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
William Faulkner
Image
It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.
William Faulkner
Image
Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.
William Faulkner
Image
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
William Faulkner
Image
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.
William Faulkner
Image
People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.
William Faulkner
Image
There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.
William Faulkner
Image
It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.
William Faulkner
Image
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 Faulkner
Image
Read, read read. Read everything.
William Faulkner
Image
Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.
William Faulkner