William Cuthbert Falkner quotes - Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

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

William Cuthbert Falkner - American writer

Born - September 25, 1897 in Mississippi, U.S.

Died - July 6, 1962 in Mississippi, U.S.

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