Faulkner Quotes

Amid the pointing and the horror the clean flame.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yours...

Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

Civilization begins with distillation

Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fi...

Amid the pointing and the horror, the clean flame.