It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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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.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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