Quotes from William Faulkner

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each look burdened with youth's immemorial obsession not with time's dragging weight which the old live with but with its fluidity: the bright heels of all the lost moments of fifteen and sixteen.

I realised; no: knew; it was obvious; Boon himself admitted it in so many words)

I dont suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You dont 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.

We can invest trifles with a tragic profundity, which is the world.

You see, if only people didn't refuse quick and hard to think about next Monday, Virtue wouldn't have such a hard and thankless time of it.

He will save me from the water and from the fire.

Our brother Darl in a cage in Jackson where, his grimed hands lying light in the quiet interstices, looking out he foams.

Folks don't go to wars for fun. A man don't leave his maw crying just for fun.

He could not hear either; the galloping mare was almost upon him before he heard her, and even then he held his course, as if the very urgency of his wild grief and need must in a moment more find him wings

Every man will be equal there and it will be taken from them that have and give to them that have not by the Lord. But

Beneath the quilt she is no more than a bundle of rotten sticks