William Faulkner Quotes about Desire

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Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

William Faulkner

Men, Dust, Desire

William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.126, Modern Library

They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.

William Faulkner

Voice, People, Desire

William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.117, Modern Library