Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Try to be better than yourself.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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