Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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