Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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