Quotes by : William Faulkner

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it....

I decline to accept the end of men... I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He....

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

You know that if I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies....

You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try....

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that....

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy. His wife and children may be shoeless....

It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches....

My gad," one of them, warrant officer pilot, captain and M. C. in turn said to me once; "if you can treat....

I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging....