The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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