William Faulkner Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering, which enemies as well as lovers know because it makes them both:---touch and touch of that which is the citadel of the central I-Am's private own: not spirit, soul; the liquorish and ungirdled mind is anyone's to take in any any darkened hallway of this earthly tenement. But let flesh touch with flesh, and watch the fall of all the eggshell shibboleth of caste and color too.

  William Faulkner

  Fall, Cutting, Color

  "Daughter of the Swan: Love and Knowledge in Eudora Welty's Fiction". Book by Rosa Coldfield (p. 32), 1994.

• She was the captain of her soul

  William Faulkner

  Soul, Captains

• Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Swimming, Men

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