Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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