More Quotes by William Faulkner
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.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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.
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
