William Faulkner

"Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say."

"Dilsey stroked Bens lower head, slowly and steadily, smoothing the bang upon his brow. He wailed quietly, unhurriedly. "Hush," Dilsey said. "Hush, now. We be gone in a minute. Hush, now." He wailed quietly and steadily."

"Clocks slay time. ... Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day youd think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune."

"Civilization," mused Bill once, "started with distillation."

"Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets."

"When people act like niggers, no matter who they are, the only thing to do is treat them like a nigger."

"People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too."

"Even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as an honest man can be tortured into telling a lie."

"Memory believes before knowing remembers."

"... ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth."

"I never know what I think about something until I read what Ive written on it."