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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. - William Faulkner
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Horizons
Courage
William Faulkner
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.
― William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Dream
Contemporaries
Predecessors
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
― William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Given
Experience
Pain
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
― William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Writing
Darlings
Kill
The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
― William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Saddest
Love
Heartbreak
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
― William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Perhaps
Putting
Live
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
― William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Beneath
Strange
Roof
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
― William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Talk
Heartbreaking
Stupidity
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.
― William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Seduce
Possibly
Talk
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
― William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Memory
Believes
Recollects
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
― William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Writer
Writing
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.
― William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Going
Rather
Bad
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
― William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Feel
Blind
Earth
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.
― William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Clocks
Clicked
Stops
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
― William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Love
Despite
Faults
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
― William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Dreams
Owner
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.
― William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Read
Write
Master
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
― William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Swim
Horizons
Courage
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.
― William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Afraid
Honesty
Compassion
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
― William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Past
Dead
Never
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