Too much happens ... Man performs engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
Weitere Zitate von William Faulkner
Zum Autor"I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time."
"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good."
"The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on."
"When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar."
"Wanton stars galloped neighing like unicorns in blue meadows."
"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."