How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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