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.
Weitere Zitate von William Faulkner
Zum Autor"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."
"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."
"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."
"When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar."
"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good."
"In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior."