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“[B]ecause the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I never had actually believed: that love and suffering are the same thing and that the value of love is the sum of what you have to pay for it and anytime you get it cheap you have cheated yourself.”

Love Suffering Value William Faulkner The Wild Palms

Author:William Faulkner

“she wanted to know what American writers I liked. "Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily Dickinson…" "No, living." Ah, well, hmm, let's see: how difficult, the rival factor being what it is, for a contemporary author, or would-be author, to confess admiration for another. At last I said, "Not Hemingway—a really dishonest man, the closet-everything. Not Thomas Wolfe—all that purple upchuck; of course, he isn't living. Faulkner, sometimes: Light in August. Fitzgerald, sometimes: Diamond as Big as the Ritz, Tender Is the Night. I really like Willa Cather. Have you read My Mortal Enemy?" With no particular expression, she said, "Actually, I wrote it.”

Henry James Ernest Hemingway Emily Dickinson Tender Is The Night F Scott Fitzgerald William Faulkner Thomas Wolfe Willa Cather Nathaniel Hawthorne Light In August Diamond As Big As The Ritz

Book:Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote

Source: Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote

“Because you know that's all I needs, all I wants, is for you to try to run, to turn your back on me and run. I know you aint going to. Because all you got to beat is me. I got to beat old Carothers. Get your pistol." "No," the other said. "Go home. Get out of here. Tonight I will come to your house-----" "After this?" Lucas said. "Me and you, in the same country, breathing the same air even? No matter what you could say, what you could even prove so I would have to believe it, after this? Get your pistol.”

Drama Dramatic Moment William Faulkner Go Down Moses

Book:Go Down, Moses

Source: Go Down, Moses

“When they get done sending you to Parchman you'll have plenty of time between working cotton and corn you aint going to get no third and fourth of even, to study it." They looked at one another. "Yes sir," George said. 'Especially wid you there to help me worry hit out.”

Humor William Faulkner Go Down Moses

Book:Go Down, Moses

Source: Go Down, Moses

“Hammett used to be irritated by that and would answer that nobody ever deliberately wrote a potboiler, you just did the best you could and woke up to find it good or no good.”

Quality Books Writers Authors Sanctuary William Faulkner Potboilers Dashiell Hammett

Book:An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir

Source: An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir

“Yes. Because they were human men. They were trying to write down the heart's truth out of the heart's driving complexity, for all the complex and troubled hearts which would beat after them.”

William Faulkner John Dunn The Bear

Author:William Faulkner "The Bear"

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past. When I discovered that quotation not long ago on BrainyQuote.com, I was thunderstruck. I thought, Who the fook is Faulkner?”

Brainy Quote Prince Harry William Faulkner

Book:Spare

Source: Spare

“Writing is a solitary job--that is, no one can help you with it, bu there's nothing lonely about it. I have always been too busy, too immersed in what I was doing, either mad at it or laughing at it to have time to wonder whether I was lonely or not lonely. It's simply solitary. I think there is a difference between loneliness and solitude.”

Loneliness Or Solitude William Faulkner Lonely Writer

Author:William Faulkner at the University of Virginia

“That's what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which lie the outraged entrails of events.”

Time Quotes Southern Gothic William Faulkner As I Lay Dying

Book:As I Lay Dying

Source: As I Lay Dying

“battles lost not alone because of superior numbers and failing ammunition and stores, but because of generals who should not have been generals, who were generals not through training in contemporary methods or aptitude for learning them, but by the divine right to say 'Go there' conferred upon them by an absolute caste system”

War Civil War William Faulkner Absalom Absalom

Author:William Faulkner