The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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