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.
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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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER