Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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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She was the captain of her soul
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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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