Faulknerian Sentences Quotes & Sayings

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign. — Theodore White

Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung about him. He was a glance from God. — Zora Neale Hurston

Oh say can you see Alma. The darling
of Them. All her friends were artists.
They alone have memories. They alone
love flowers. They alone give parties
and die. Poor Alma. They alone.
She died,
and it was as if all the jewels in the world
had heaved a sigh. The seismograph
at Fordham university registered, for once,
a spiritual note. How like a sliver
in her own short fat muscular foot.
She loved the Western World, though
there are some who say she isn't really dead. — Frank O'Hara

It had been an evening in the empty dance hall when not even that depth of stone and the constant stirring of the ceiling fans could cool the stifling and humid night air, which had entered the Duckworth Club as heavily as a fog from the Arabian Sea. Even atheists, like Lowji, were praying for the monsoon rains. After — John Irving

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. — Ogden Nash