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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Absorb Apprentice Carpenter Good Just Like Master Out Raed Study Window Write
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Kick Labor Mule Once Patiently Privilege Ten Willingly Year You
I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Blind Individual Look Phase See Think Truth
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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Courage Cowardice Fellow Good Gun Let Run Time Toward Whether Word
I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
WILLIAM FAULKNER

All Desire Give Hope Mausoleum
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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Before Born Consequence Dead Desire Environment Eternity Heredity History Labor never Past Spun Web
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Important Most One Talent Thought Time
Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Dead Life Long Prepare Process Time
No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Battle Ever Fool Illusion No Philosopher Victory Won
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Country First People Person Place Understand World
Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Brother Dood Get Have One Rich Success Time
All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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All Another Except Have Know Mix Same String Try Way
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Between Choice Choose Experience Given Nothing Pain Path
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Back Bear Cash Either Got Kidos Matter Money Paper Picture Refuse Young
I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Clock Day Every Feel Fortunately Inspiration Only Strick Ten Write
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Aim Artificial Artist Every Fix Hold Hundred Later Life Look Motion Stranger Year

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