William Faulkner
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
“Poor man. Poor mankind.”
“There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good.”
“Even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as an honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.”
“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”
“Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.”
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.”
“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.”
“Kill your darlings.”
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
“A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.”
“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.”
“Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.”
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.”
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.”
“Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.”
“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 time come to life.”
“I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.”