More Quotes by William Faulkner
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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.
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
