More Quotes by William Faulkner
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.
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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.
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.