Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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 never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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