Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBe scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERShe was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNever be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
WILLIAM FAULKNERMemory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf 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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHe must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
WILLIAM FAULKNER