The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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 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 end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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