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  • #1
    “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
    Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus

  • #2
    T.S. Eliot
    “Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #3
    T.S. Eliot
    “I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #4
    T.S. Eliot
    “If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #5
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #6
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

  • #7
    William Nicholson
    “Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.”
    William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

  • #8
    William Nicholson
    “Today begins my walk with you. Where you go, I go. Where you stay, I stay. When you sleep, I will sleep. When you rise, I will rise. I will pass my days within the sound of your voice, and my nights within the reach of your hand. And none shall come between us. - Manth Vow”
    William Nicholson

  • #9
    William Goldman
    “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
    William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery

  • #10
    William Shakespeare
    “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
    William Shakespeare

  • #11
    William Arthur Ward
    “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
    William Arthur Ward

  • #12
    William Faulkner
    “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
    William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

  • #13
    William Faulkner
    “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

  • #14
    William Faulkner
    “Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
    William Faulkner, The Wild Palms

  • #15
    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    William Faulkner

  • #16
    William Faulkner
    “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

  • #17
    William Faulkner
    “Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”
    William Faulkner

  • #18
    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

  • #19
    William Faulkner
    “Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
    William Faulkner

  • #20
    William Faulkner
    “She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.”
    William Faulkner, The Town

  • #21
    William Faulkner
    “He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”
    William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

  • #22
    William Faulkner
    “It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work. ”
    William Faulkner

  • #23
    William Faulkner
    “Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.”
    William Faulkner

  • #24
    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 Sound and the Fury

  • #25
    William Faulkner
    “There is no was.”
    William Faulkner

  • #27
    William Faulkner
    “A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.”
    William Faulkner

  • #28
    William Faulkner
    “It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.”
    William Faulkner

  • #29
    William Faulkner
    “You can't. You just have to.”
    William Faulkner

  • #30
    William Faulkner
    “Memory believes before knowing remembers.

    [Light in August]”
    William Faulkner, Light in August

  • #31
    William Faulkner
    “If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.”
    William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!



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