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.
Weitere Zitate von William Faulkner
Zum Autor"Wanton stars galloped neighing like unicorns in blue meadows."
"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."
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.'(on Ernest Hemingway."
"I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone."
"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good."