8 Quotes Tagged: faulkner

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

My father is a fish.

Victory without God is mockery and delusion, but...defeat with God is not defeat.

I am not religious, I reckon. But peace is in my heart: I know it is.

That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at.

Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry.

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

Civilization begins with distillation