Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.
William Faulkner
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Mile
Becomes
Less
Crowded
Long
Stone
Men
Grown
Miles
Throw
Stones
Boyhood
Childhood
More quotes by William Faulkner
Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.
William Faulkner
Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
William Faulkner
Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
William Faulkner
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
William Faulkner
You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.
William Faulkner
You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.
William Faulkner
any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man
William Faulkner
Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.
William Faulkner
I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!
William Faulkner
All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.
William Faulkner
Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
William Faulkner
Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura.
William Faulkner
To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.
William Faulkner
What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.
William Faulkner
Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.
William Faulkner
A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don't square.
William Faulkner
In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.
William Faulkner
It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.
William Faulkner
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
William Faulkner
When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
William Faulkner
