Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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William Faulkner
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William Faulkner quotes
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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.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
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The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
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I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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.
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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.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.