I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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The 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
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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