Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERClocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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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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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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