Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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