No one individual can tell the truth.
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Civilization begins with distillation
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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 work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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