More Quotes by William Faulkner
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
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.
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
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.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
