I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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