William Faulkner Quotes

We Have A Few Old Mouth-to-mouth Tales; We Exhume From Old Trunks And Boxes And Drawers Letters Without Salutation Or Signature, In Which Men And Women Who Once Lived And Breathed Are Now Merely Initials Or Nicknames Out Of Some Now Incomprehensible Affection Which Sound To Us Like Sanskrit Or Chocktaw; We See Dimly People, The People In Whose Living Blood And Seed We Ourselves Lay Dormant And Waiting, In This Shadowy Attenuation Of Time Possessing Now Heroic Proportions, Performing Their Acts Of Simple Passion And Simple Violence, Impervious To Time And Inexplicable.

William Faulkner Quotes: We Have A Few Old Mouth-to-mouth Tales; We Exhume From Old Trunks And Boxes And Drawers Letters Without Salutation Or

William Faulkner Quotes: We Have A Few Old Mouth-to-mouth Tales; We Exhume From Old Trunks And Boxes And Drawers Letters Without Salutation Or

William Faulkner Quotes: We Have A Few Old Mouth-to-mouth Tales; We Exhume From Old Trunks And Boxes And Drawers Letters Without Salutation Or

William Faulkner Quotes: We Have A Few Old Mouth-to-mouth Tales; We Exhume From Old Trunks And Boxes And Drawers Letters Without Salutation Or

William Faulkner Quotes: We Have A Few Old Mouth-to-mouth Tales; We Exhume From Old Trunks And Boxes And Drawers Letters Without Salutation Or

William Faulkner Quotes: We Have A Few Old Mouth-to-mouth Tales; We Exhume From Old Trunks And Boxes And Drawers Letters Without Salutation Or

William Faulkner Quotes: We Have A Few Old Mouth-to-mouth Tales; We Exhume From Old Trunks And Boxes And Drawers Letters Without Salutation Or

William Faulkner Quotes: We Have A Few Old Mouth-to-mouth Tales; We Exhume From Old Trunks And Boxes And Drawers Letters Without Salutation Or

William Faulkner Quotes: We Have A Few Old Mouth-to-mouth Tales; We Exhume From Old Trunks And Boxes And Drawers Letters Without Salutation Or

William Faulkner Quotes: We Have A Few Old Mouth-to-mouth Tales; We Exhume From Old Trunks And Boxes And Drawers Letters Without Salutation Or

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