Light In August Quotes

But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.

William Faulkner

Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why should not their religion drive them to crucifixion of themselves and one another? he thinks.

William Faulkner