We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
More William Faulkner Quotes
-
-
Only when the clock stops does time come to life
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
She was the captain of her soul
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
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 -
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
No one individual can tell the truth.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
WILLIAM FAULKNER






