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 FAULKNERIf happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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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 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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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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 last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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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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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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