Don’t bother just to be better than others. 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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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