Faulkner/criticism

Famous quotes containing the words faulkner and/or criticism:

    Agnes: A half-smart guy, that’s what I always draw. Never once a man who’s smart all the way around the course. Never once.
    Philip Marlowe: I hurt you much, sugar?
    Agnes: You and every other man I’ve ever met.
    —William Faulkner (1897–1962)

    Like speaks to like only; labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still to the past, how little to the future, how much to the East, how little to the West.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)