Quotes about Perception
confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever touches.
— William Faulkner
Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.
— William Faulkner
Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
— William Faulkner
That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at.
— William Faulkner
So this is love. I see. I was wrong about it too', thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
— William Faulkner
Because always,' he thinks, 'when anything gets to be a habit, it also manages to get a right good distance away from truth and fact.
— William Faulkner
He had a face like a nutcracker; a scrawny man of no particular age, with merry secretive eyes.
— William Faulkner
Only a fool tries to outsmart smart people, and anyone that tries to fool fools is himself already one.
— William Faulkner
I see all the while how folks could say he was queer, but that was the very reason couldn't nobody hold it personal. It was like he was outside of it too, same as you, and getting mad at it would be kind of like getting mad at a mud-puddle that splashed you when you stepped in it.
— William Faulkner
She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
— William Faulkner
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— William Faulkner
Father said you swallow like you had a fishbone in your throat...
— William Faulkner