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.
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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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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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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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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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