I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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History is not was, it is.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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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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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 end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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