William Faulkner

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

William Faulkner

Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act.

William Faulkner

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

William Faulkner

It is the writer’s privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

William Faulkner

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

William Faulkner

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

William Faulkner

The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.

William Faulkner

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

William Faulkner

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

William Faulkner

A gentleman can live through anything.

William Faulkner