#faulkner

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. ↗

— William Faulkner

#dramatic-moment #go-down-moses #william-faulkner #home

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ↗

— William Faulkner

#inspirational #motivational #inspirational

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now. ↗

— Ken Burns

#before #faulkner #history #i #just

The displacement of water is equal to the something of something. ↗

— William Faulkner

#prose #the-sound-and-the-fury #william-faulkner #equality