Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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 most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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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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