William Faulkner Quotes


Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.


Citations

Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929.

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William Faulkner
William Faulkner
  • Born: September 25, 1897
  • Died: July 6, 1962
  • Nationality: American
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William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, essays, and a play. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life.