14 beautiful quotes by William Faulkner. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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William Faulkner
“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.”
“If a story is in you, it has to come out.”
“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.”
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If peop...
“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune”
“All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the imposs...
“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
“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. ”
“You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.”
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
“Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does ti...
“A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. ”
