It’s terrible to be young. It’s terrible. Terrible.
- William Faulkner
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
- William Faulkner
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
- William Faulkner
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything good.
- William Faulkner
I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
- William Faulkner
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
- William Faulkner
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
- William Faulkner
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
- William Faulkner
Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
- William Faulkner
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.
- William Faulkner
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
- William Faulkner
Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
- William Faulkner
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
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
- William Faulkner
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
- William Faulkner
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
- William Faulkner
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us
- Margaret Guenther
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
- Margaret Thatcher
The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.
- Margaret Thatcher