Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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She was the captain of her soul
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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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