The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

it was men invented virginity not women.

Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

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.

A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.”

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

you are confusing sin and morality women dont do that your mother is thinking of morality whether it be sin or not has not occurred to her

I see now that I must pay for your sins as well as mine what have you done what sins have your high and mighty people visited upon me but you’ll take up for them you always have found excuses for your own blood

Father said a man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune

their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.

they too partaking of that adult trait of being convinced of anything by an assumption of silent superiority.

She dont object to the fighting, it’s the blood that annoys her.

whether or not you consider it courageous is of more importance than the act itself

I dont need any man’s mahogany desk to prop me up.

it’s my place to suffer for my children,”

I haven’t got any money; I’ve been too busy to make any.