11 Times Faulkner had a really heavy flow and just could not deal1: When discussing his ex boyfriend: “The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
2: When explaining to his boss why he was late to work: "“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” " 3: During his brief phase moonlighting as a prostitute: "“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.” 4: After his parents grounded him: “I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are. ” 5: After reading a particularly bad dictionary: "“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.” 6: After taking PCP: “It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.” 7: Teaching sex-ed: "“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.” 8: After his west coast tour: "“Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.” 9: After his east coast tour: “I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!” 10: Thinking about a Diva cup: "“I am not one of those women who can stand things.” 11: While looking for a thief at his local community garden: “Who gathers the withered rose?” |